Re: Interesting Activity for Shell commands.

[Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>]

Martin Rheumer writes:

>I am running a number of shell scripts and find I have to specify sh
>and then the script name. The first line of the script is always
>#!/bin/sh which I am assuming takes care of this. Could someone
>provide some hints what I have done wrong or some pointers.

Have you made the script executable?

    chmod +x scriptname

is perhaps what you want.  You may also have trouble if the script
isn't in your PATH; try

    ./scriptname

assuming the script is in the current working directory.

- Richard

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