Re: Bash Script Problem

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

On 26 Aug 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> The original error message was "bad interpreter: persmission denied". 
> The error is saying that /bin/bash itself is not executable.

Not necessarily - if you try to execute a script, "./script", and _it's_
not executable, that's precisely the error generated.

OP, what happens when you do 'sh script' at a prompt?  Does it
execute?  If so, and you want it to execute without explicit invocation of
the shell, make sure the first line of the script is '#!/bin/sh' and make
it executable: 'chmod 750 script'.  It should then execute with
'./script'.

Patrick

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