>On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 11:49 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: >> >>Add the following line to the top of your script: >> >> >> >>#!/usr/bin/perl >> >> >> > >> >Yes I'm sorry I actually had that in the script and took it out to >> >test and didn't put it back before I posted. It doesn't work with it >> >either. >> >> Paul, et al: >> >> I am really screwed up here. It did need the #!/usr/bin/perl but >> that wasn't what was causing my problem. Seems there is some file >> incompatibility with my script file that I downloaded from my BSD >> server. When I copied the file with VIM it got smaller and now works >> just fine. I don't know what the problem is but it works now. I've >> noticed similar problems going the other way, moving files to the BSD >> server. > >Did the file get smaller by a number of bytes equal to the number of >lines in the script? > >Paul. Paul: No it was almost twice as many lines. But I think that is where the problem is. Another fellow suggested that I try dos2unix and that makes a file exactly the same size as the VIM copied one that works. I just tried it and that has fixed my problem. I had no clue that perl was sensitive to carriage returns. -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
