View source for /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: no such file or directory

[[Category: Linux]]
I had this error and was confused why-- even though i was using Windows to write my script for bash (Notepad++), I had created it originally as a .py file which set it to DOS encoding instead of utf-8. 

 /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: no such file or directory

==solution==
recreate the file and paste your original contents using VIM or some other basic text editor. 

==External Links==
*[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/bin-bash%5Em-bad-interpreter-no-such-file-or-directory-461400/ Linux Questions (where i found fix)]