Re: Problems with Indirect Interpretation (#!/bin/csh, #!/bin/tcsh, #!/bin/perl, etc...)

[Vince Hoffman <jhary at unsane dot co dot uk>]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Rocket Boy wrote:

> I have recently installed cygwin on my PC at home
> (Win-XP) and at work (Win-NT). I can't seem to get
> indirect interpretation (e.g. #!/bin/csh -f,
> #!/bin/tcsh -f, etc...) to work in either location. I
> have tried it in different shells: bash, tcsh, and sh.
> And, with different interpreters: #!/bin/bash,
> #!/bin/csh, #!/bin/tcsh, #!/bin/sh,
> #!/bin/perl ,etc... I have verified that the files are
> executable (777) and are in the directory that I am
> trying to execute them from. Regardless of the
> combination I get a message like:
>  
> bash: test.pl: command not found
>  
unless you have added it yourself . (your current directory) is not in
your path. try executing them as ./test.pl ./test.sh  etc

> or
>  
> bash: test.sh: command not found
>  
> etc...
>  
> It will work when I proceed the filename with the
> correct interpreter as in:
>  
> bash$ csh test.sh
>  
> but I'm sure it is just ignoring the 1st line in these
> cases.
>  
> This wouldn't be a problem because of this workaround
> except that I have a series of nested csh scripts and
> I can only get the outer one to run in this manner.
>  
> I will appreciate any advice.
>  
> Thanks
> Will
>
>
>
>
>
>
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