Script showing bad interpreter and will not run

Question

I was sent a perl script over mail and asked to run it .I placed it on my local drive as is but when I tried to run the script it shows me

/usr/bin/perl^M: bad          


        

Answer 1

Do this in vim:

:%s/^M//g

save the file and try running it again

execute: vim

when vim opens go to command mode by hitting the escape key .... at the command prompt (:) type: %s/^M//g. This will remove all "^M" characters from the file.