From:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: mysterious bash problem
14 Jan 1998 15:11:56 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19980113142530.20840.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To:	Ulrich DOT Lauther AT mchp DOT siemens DOT de
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>From: Ulrich Lauther <ulrich DOT lauther AT mchp DOT siemens DOT de>
>Subject: mysterious bash problem
>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:08:27 +0100 (MET)
>Reply-To: Ulrich DOT Lauther AT mchp DOT siemens DOT de
>
>On one NT host where I don't know who fiddled with what happens
>the following:
>
>Let foo be a valid shell script (starting with a ":" in the first line, 
BTW):

To execute a script the first non-blank line must begin with

#! /bin/sh

where /bin/sh is the path and shell you want to execute.

>
>bash$ foo
>
>gives:
>
>bash.exe: ./foo: (null)
>
>however,
>
>bash$ bash foo

This would be as expected since the shell execution wasn't set properly.

>
>results in normal execution of the script
>
>this doesn't happen with all scripts, just some.
>
>ls -l gives -rw-r--r-- in all cases
>
>What the hell is going on here?
>-- 
>	-ulrich
>
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