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RE: Problems with .EXE files overriding shell scripts in PATH.


Yes it is.

Regards,
Sergio Del Rio
Templates 4 Business Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
Sent: April 30, 2001 12:29 PM
To: sdelrio@home.com
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems with .EXE files overriding shell scripts in PATH.

Sergio Del Rio wrote:
>
> For the most part, all shell scripts that I have are found by bash if they
> are in the PATH.
>
> I am trying to write a script that overrides an existing SQLPLUS.EXE file
> that is also in the path. I created a script called sqlplus and placed it
> into /usr/local/bin which is the first thing in the path. What I notice is
> that the sqlplus shell script is not getting executed at all, the system
is
> executing the SQLPLUS.EXE program which is found later on in the path.
>
> Why does this happen?
>
> How can I get around it?
>

Is the first line of your script `#!/bin/sh'?

Earnie.

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