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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:36:29 -0700 (MST)
From: Jeff Coy <jcoy@klah.net>
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To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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Subject: Re: binfmt_script and ^M
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> 
> [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..
> 

'#!/usr/bin/perl -w^M' works without any special handling; the link is
not needed:

	11:15:52 jcoy@d-hopper::~
	$ cat -vet foo.pl
	#!/usr/bin/perl -w^M$
	^M$
	print "Hello, World!\n";^M$
	11:16:52 jcoy@d-hopper::~
	$ ./foo.pl
	Hello, World!

Jeff
--
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humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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