cvs commit: perlfaq perlfaq7.pod

cvsuser     03/01/31 09:38:14

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  * New answer: What does 'bad interpreter' mean?
  
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   =head1 NAME
   
  -perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2003/01/26 17:45:46 $)
  +perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2003/01/31 17:38:14 $)
   
   =head1 DESCRIPTION
   
  @@ -878,6 +878,31 @@
   subroutines, because they are always global--you can't use my() on them.
   For scalars, arrays, and hashes, though--and usually for subroutines--
   you probably only want to use hard references.
  +
  +=head2 What does "bad interpreter" mean?
  +
  +The "bad interpreter" message comes from the shell, not perl.  The
  +actual message may vary depending on your platform, shell, and locale
  +settings.
  +
  +If you see "bad interpreter - no such file or directory", the first
  +line in your perl script (the "shebang" line) does not contain the
  +right path to perl (or any other program capable of running scripts). 
  +Sometimes this happens when you move the script from one machine to
  +another and each machine has a different path to perl---/usr/bin/perl
  +versus /usr/local/bin/perl for instance.
  +
  +If you see "bad interpreter: Permission denied", you need to make your
  +script executable.
  +
  +In either case, you should still be able to run the scripts with perl
  +explicitly:
  +
  +	% perl script.pl
  +
  +If you get a message like "perl: command not found", perl is not in
  +your PATH, which might also mean that the location of perl is not
  +where you expect it so you need to adjust your shebang line.
   
   =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT