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Re: B20.1 Can't execute shell scripts
- To: Johan & Lydia Holtman <jholtman at dds dot nl>
- Subject: Re: B20.1 Can't execute shell scripts
- From: "M. R. Brown" <marcusb at csd dot uwm dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:07:28 -0500 (CDT)
- cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Johan & Lydia Holtman wrote:
>
> bash: file://d/unixtools/ii.sh: No such file or directory
>
> My path is:
>
> file://d/unixtools:/d/CYGNUS~1/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin:/c/WINNT/SYSTEM32
> etc,, including '.'.
>
> Alternative II:
>
> ./ii.sh
>
> Gives the same error: No such file or directory.
>
> ONLY by executing "bash ii.sh" or "sh ii.sh" the command is executed.
>
Did you make sure to insert a sh-bang ("#!/bin/sh" without the quotes) at
the top of your script? If you want to execute the command without
explicitly calling bash, this must be the _first_ line in your script.
Also, this convention will only work within the bash interpreter.
Marcus
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