Re: PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

2016-10-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 05:19:34PM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > Ignoring your youth, you need to precede your script with a valid path > such as './' :-) He did.

Re: PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

2016-10-10 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 10/10/16 16:46, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/10/2016 10:04 AM, Nicolas George wrote: >> Le nonidi 19 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : >>> 1. What Debian oriented Bash Tutorial should I be reading? >> >> My first tutorial advice: do not do bash. I advise to do either or >> both of

Re: PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

2016-10-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/10/2016 10:04 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le nonidi 19 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : 1. What Debian oriented Bash Tutorial should I be reading? My first tutorial advice: do not do bash. I advise to do either or both of: learn standard sh for portable scripts and for more

Re: PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

2016-10-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/10/2016 10:01 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:58:44AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: 1. What Debian oriented Bash Tutorial should I be reading? http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide is decent. Now bookmarked. Neglected to do so last time I was looking. However, I mi

Re: PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

2016-10-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 19 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : > 1. What Debian oriented Bash Tutorial should I be reading? My first tutorial advice: do not do bash. I advise to do either or both of: learn standard sh for portable scripts and for more advanced scripting learn a modern shell less enc

Re: PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

2016-10-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:58:44AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > 1. What Debian oriented Bash Tutorial should I be reading? http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide is decent. However, I might be slightly biased.

PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

2016-10-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/10/2016 8:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 08:10:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/10/2016 8:00 AM, Robert Parker wrote: you need to do: ./test.sh instead. That just fails differently by responding: : No such file or directory Carriage return. Did you edit