How to solve “bad interpreter: No such file or directory”

Question

I\'m trying to run a sh script and get the following error on Mac:

/usr/bin/perl^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

How

Answer 1

/usr/bin/perl^M:

Remove the ^M at the end of usr/bin/perl from the #! line at the beginning of the script. That is a spurious ASCII 13 character that is making the shell go crazy.

Possibly you would need to inspect the file with a binary editor if you do not see the character.

You could do like this to convert the file to Mac line-ending format:

$ vi your_script.sh

once in vi type:

 :set ff=unix

 :x