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Subject: Re: Can't execute shell script as wish subprocess, exes work
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:11:31 -0500
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> I'm unable to run shell scripts in wish using
>
>    open [list | my-shell-script]
>
> The error I get is
>
> couldn't execute "my-shell-script": no such file or directory
>
> - the shell script is set as executable - it starts with "#!/bin/sh" -
> /bin/sh is executable - the directory where my-shell-script is is in
> PATH - running .exe's in that same directory in the same way works
> fine - using the command
>
>    open [list | sh my-shell-script]
>
> the shell script works fine.

It appears your PATH doesn't include the directory for my-shell-script.

If you changed:

open [list | my-shell-script]

to

open [list | /full/path/to/my-shell-script]

does it work?

If you display your path (echo $PATH) in my-shell-script, and run it
both ways, does it have different values?

Brett
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