Re: A piping problem

[Rob Collins <rob@intr.net>]

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote:

> #!perl
> while(<STDIN>){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";};
> 
> I can give the command "less /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filer"
> to bash, and get a listing of the file -- it really IS there.  
> 
> But when I try to pipe stuff into the filter with the following command
> to bash  "cat mytextfile | /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filter | lpr"
> I get the the following error report:
> 
> bash: /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filter: No such file or directory
> lpr: stdin: empty input file
> 
> Can anyone explain why bash tells me the file is not there?

You get No such file or directory -- probably because perl is not in your
path.  Put the absolute path to perl in line one, like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

hope that helps!

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