Perl seems to have broken: “=: not found” and “package: not found”

Question

I have a perl script; on my personal machine, running the exact same version of perl (5.10.1), it runs perfectly fine. However, on the server machine, it not only doesn\'t run,

Answer 1

The issue is that bash is trying to run/compile/interpret the script, rather than perl.

#! /usr/bin/perl

should be at the very top of your file, don't have stuff above it.