From: ggp AT informix DOT com (Guy Gascoigne - Piggford) Subject: Re: mysterious bash problem 16 Jan 1998 10:26:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980114103940.020fdbf8.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.pdx.informix.com> References: <199801130831 DOT JAA04984 AT fubini DOT mchp DOT siemens DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ulrich DOT Lauther AT mchp DOT siemens DOT de, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com You need to save your shell script as a UNIX file and not as a DOS one. Guy At 09:31 AM 1/13/98 +0100, Ulrich Lauther wrote: >Let foo be a valid shell script (starting with a ":" in the first line, BTW): > >bash$ foo > >gives: > >bash.exe: ./foo: (null) > >however, > >bash$ bash foo > >results in normal execution of the script - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".