Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020610104050.04c86c98@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:43:55 -0400 To: "Steven Weiss" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: running shell scripts In-Reply-To: <076e01c21059$1cfd6ee0$0200a8c0@weiss> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:30 AM 6/10/2002, Steven Weiss wrote: >Hi > >/Develop/test/bin> chmod 755 work >/Develop/test/bin> ls -l work >-rwxr-xr-x 1 dbadmin Administ 27 Jun 9 20:18 work >/Develop/test/bin> ./work >bash: ./work: No such file or directory > >I am trying to running a shell script from an interactive bash session. I >get the following error when running the shell script. It seems to work when >I put the #! /cygwin/bin/bash inside the script. Surely the script should >run with the execute permissions set as they are. bash is *not* the default shell in Cygwin. /bin/sh is which is ash. Did you install it and make sure that it's in your path? BTW, there's nothing wrong with providing the command interpreter as the first line of the script. Actually, it's highly recommended practice. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/