Interpreter problem

[Steve Holden]

tuba_ranger wrote:
> Yes!  I moved the file (which I had created on a windows box using a
> mounted drive), created a new one on the Linux box, typed in the
> shabang in Linux, then copied the old file (sans shabang) to the new
> file.  It runs like a champ.  My sysadmin suggests we run all of our
> files through dos2unix before they are moved to production. We both
> imagine that we would have the same problem with our Perl scripts as
> well.
> 
> It's odd that deleting the line and reentering it on the Linux box did
> not correct the problem.  Perhaps vim recognized the format as having
> cr-lf and inserted it even though I was editing on Linux.
> 
> Anyhow, it would have been a long time before I got this one.  Thanks.
> 
A pleasure - just passing on payback for the huge amounts of help I've 
had here myself. See also my post in reply to rbt's latest for remarks 
on other possible fixes using vim.

regards
  Steve
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