Re: how to make shell scripts executable -- and NTFS driver
Tristan Day <GreenSideburns@csi.com> writes:
TD> Okay, I've just downloaded the NTFS driver for linux. It was in
TD> .gz format so I unzipped it, and got the same file minus the .gz
TD> bit.
Right, gzip only compresses a single file. Most commonly, people
wanting to bundle things up use the tar utility and compress the
resulting file, resulting in a .tar.gz file.
ntfs-blah.tar.gz --> ntfs-blah.tar: gunzip ntfs-blah.tar.gz
ntfs-blah.tar --> <files>: tar xvf ntfs-blah.tar
ntfs-blah.tar.gz --> <files>: tar xvzf ntfs-blah.tar.gz
TD> Now I haven't a clue about shell scripts, as I'm used to dos batch
TD> files, so I looked into the dos to linux howto, which told me that
TD> all I needed to make the shell script executable was to type the
TD> following command:
TD>
TD> chgmod +x <filename>
This is a typo. The correct command is "chmod". (And it looks
correct in the copy of the HOWTO I have.) I'm also guessing thaty ou
don't have a shell script, but a tar archive instead; see above.
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