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Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:29:20 -0400
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	sdelrio AT home DOT com
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Subject:	Re: Problems with .EXE files overriding shell scripts in PATH.
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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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