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From: "david mallon" <dpmallon AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: bash bad interpreter - a new twist!
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:50:41 -0400
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Hi

I seem to have an intermittant problem with bash that I cannot work out---in 
which a script usually works fine, but sometimes in the same session 
attempting to run it gives the bash message: bad interpreter.

I'm using cygwin (september 2003 build) and ActiveState perl.  To connect 
ActiveState into cygwin I use a proxy /usr/local/bin/perl bourne shell 
script that essentially transalates the paths (cygpath -w) and delegates to 
the ActiveState perl.exe binary.  Given the following foobar script:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
print "foobar world\n";

When I invoke foobar from the bash command line, nine times out of ten it 
works.  However, sometimes I get the bash error:

bash: /cygdrive/f/home/evad/bin/foobar: /usr/local/bin/perl: bad 
interpreter: No such file or directory

If I immediately type the command again it will work, but given enough 
time/iterations it will fail again.  One thing to notice ... each time I 
create a new shell window it always fails the first time I issue the 
command.

I'd appreciate some ideas as right now I'm quite puzzled.

Thanks

-- dave mallon

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