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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Neil Messmer" Subject: Re: #! not a recognized internal or external command Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:28:26 -0700 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <20031002204725 DOT GA11435 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 I would have thought the paths set in your particuliar environment would have enabled to the find the correct shell for proper execution. I am still convinced it is a setup issue as it works on another machine here. OS versions and hardware are identical. "Corinna Vinschen" wrote in message news:20031002204725 DOT GA11435 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de... > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:08:25PM -0700, Neil Messmer wrote: > > I have just installed the latest version of cygwin and get the following > > error message when running my scripts while running cygwin under Win XP. It > > does not matter what shell I specify for the script. > > > > My paths on the win pc is set to /usr/local/bin; /usr/bin; /bin; > > /usr/x11r6/bin. > > > > The simple test script contains one line: > > #! /bin/tsch > > s/tsch/tcsh > > but the *real* problem is that you're trying to start a shell script > under cmd.exe. That won't work. The error message is generated by > cmd.exe because it correctly doesn't recognize #! as a command. The > #! syntax requires support by the starting application, in your case, > by Cygwin. If the starting application is not a Cygwin shell, you > must start the script as a parameter to the right shell: > > C:\foo> tcsh script-name > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat, Inc. > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/