No script output to stdout,stderr

[Brendan Gibson]

| > [...]
| > | $ perl checkout.pl
| > | I am a perl script
| > | 
| > | However running them as
| > | ./shcheckout.sh 
| > | AND
| > | ./checkout.pl
| > | produce no output, but redirecting the output to a file works OK.
| > | Does anyone know what's going on, and how to fix it?
| > 
| > No, I don't know what's going on. It is not normal at all.
| > Do other commands produce output in that shell?
|
| Yes they do.  Only when a shell script is called with #! in the top of an
| external file do I get no output.  I have been able to work around it, but
| still puzzles me.

Could you describe your workaround please? It may give clues.

And please post below the (trimmed) quoted text; it makes the context read
like a conversation, which is desirable because it is a conversation.

- The workaround was just to run commands like $ perl command.pl

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