Odd Perl interpreter problem

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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Josh,
The #!/usr/bin/perl should work. Make sure that this is in the first line 
of your script. Yes, you can run perl scripts manually.
perl [options] [script] [args...]
Josh Greenberg wrote:
> I am having an odd Perl problem on Slack 8.0 box.
> 
> I have #!/usr/bin/perl as interpreter line in scripts.
> I get "bad interpreter: no such file or directory" messages when trying to 
> run the script.
> which perl gives /usr/bin/perl
> I can run the script "manually" -- e.g. by entering /usr/bin/perl scriptname
> File permissions are fine
> 
> Anyone have any ideas how to fix -- probably something dumb, but annoying...
> 
> Thanks.
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