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Date:  Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:51:39 +1000
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If you call sh like this, sh will try to run the file as shell script.
And of course ls is not a shell script.
To run a binary command (or any command actually) with sh, the command 
should be:

	sh -c ls

Regards,
Kiyo

ml wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i need some help with this:
> My plan was to use rsync via ssh from a bash script. But rsync could not 
> run ssh for whatever reason: no such file or directory.
> 
> For quicker checking, invoking "bash -e ls" or just "sh ls" shows the 
> same problem - see below.
> 
> Can someone help me out?
> 
> Thanks!
> ml
> 
> 
> ml AT cygwintest:~$ sh ls
> sh: /usr/bin/ls: No such file or directory
> 
> ml AT cygwintest:~$ bash ls
> bash: /usr/bin/ls: No such file or directory
> 
> ml AT cygwintest:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/ls
> -rwxr-x---+ 1 ml Users 91136 Jul  5 07:27 /usr/bin/ls
> 
> ml AT cygwintest:~$ ls -la /bin/ls
> -rwxr-x---+ 1 ml Users 91136 Jul  5 07:27 /bin/ls
> 
> 
> ml AT cygwintest:~$ cygcheck /bin/ls
> d:/cygwin/bin/ls.exe
>   d:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
>     C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>   d:/cygwin/bin\cygintl-3.dll
>     d:/cygwin/bin\cygiconv-2.dll
> 
> 
> ml AT cygwintest:~$ cygcheck /usr/bin/ls
> d:/cygwin/bin/ls.exe
>   d:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
>     C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>   d:/cygwin/bin\cygintl-3.dll
>     d:/cygwin/bin\cygiconv-2.dll
> 
> 


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