I tried ./scriptname and bash reports "No such file or
directory". I can ls and it shows scriptname* which should
indicate that it is executable and in the current directory.
btw:
I bought the book "LINUX Shells by Example" by Ellie Quigley
and have been trying to run some of the scripts from the
cdrom. Many of the commands fail (e.g. echo -n "Where do
you work").
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Dean
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Keith Christian wrote:
>
> Hi Dean,
>
> Likely your system is set up (properly so) without the current
> directory in the path.
>
> To invoke a shell script named, say, foo.sh, type this:
>
> ./foo.sh (Notice the leading dot-slash) and it should run. This
> indicates that the script is in the current directory: dot represents
> the current directory, slash is the pathname separator.
>
> ====Keith
>
> --- Dean Steichen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there some option I need to set to invoke a bash script?
> >
> > I have created a script with the #!/bin/bash as the first
> > line and have chmod +x scriptname to make it executable but
> > it will not execute unless I issue the "bash scriptname"
> > command (preceed the scriptname with the command bash).
> > Is this normal?
> >
> > --
> > Dean Steichen
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> >
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