[plug] #! not working?

[Bevan Broun]

on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:37:55AM +0800, Christian <again at global.net.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a very odd problem here. (don't start!)  None of my Perl/Shell
> scripts etc. that use the #! bit at the start work:
> 
> cpayne at heaven:~$ cat test.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print "yep\n";
> 
> cpayne at heaven:~$ ./test.pl
> bash: ./test.pl: Permission denied
> 
> cpayne at heaven:~$ perl test.pl
> yep


and what does ls -l "test.pl show?". The error message you report is
consitent with test.pl not having excute permission.

man chmod
chmod 755 test.pl

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