From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:09:25 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
      
   > There was a blank line at the top, and the error messages must have   
   > come from the shell (bash) rather than from perl.   
      
   I have made a similar mistake once or twice, by forgetting the shebang   
   line in a Python script.   
      
   The symptom was, as soon as I ran the script, my terminal session   
   would completely hang.   
      
   Took me a while to figure out what was going on, the first time: the   
   system thought it was a shell script, and the first non-comment line   
   happened to be an “import” statement. As you may or may not know,   
   there is a command in the ImageMagick suite named “import”, for doing   
   screen captures. The hang was actually the program waiting for me to   
   select the window/region to capture.   
      
   I see that ImageMagick is now moving to prefix all its commands as   
   subcommands of a common “magick” command. I guess reducing pollution   
   of the global command-name space is, in general, a Good Thing ...   
      
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