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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:15:10 -0600
To: Jeff Coy <jcoy@klah.net>
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Subject: Re: binfmt_script and ^M
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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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[Jeff Coy]
> this issue came up frequently with customers uploading scripts in
> binary mode trying to run #!/usr/bin/perl^M.  The solution for me was
> to just do the following:
> 
> 	cd /usr/bin
> 	sudo ln -s perl^V^M perl

So none of your customers tried '#!/usr/bin/perl -w^M'?  (Come on,
doesn't everyone use -w?)

I'm not for treating \r as IFS in the kernel, but the "simple one-time"
solution is not perfect..

Peter
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