PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 10/10/2016 8:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 08:10:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 10/10/2016 8:00 AM, Robert Parker wrote:
> > > you need to do:
> > > ./test.sh
> > > instead.
> >
> > That just fails differently by responding:
> >
> > : No such file or directory
>
> Carriage return.  Did you edit this script with a Microsoft Windows
> program, perhaps?  The shebang line (#!/bin/bash) probably ends with
> a carriage return + line feed, instead of just a line feed.

You were on the right track.
My editor was gedit under Squeeze.
*HOWEVER*, as my original was saved to a flash drive that I also 
use to transfer information to/from my Windows machines, I had 
saved with Windows' line endings ;/

It now, like the proverbial child, it does what I _told_ it to do 
but not quite what I _wanted_ it to do.

1. What Debian oriented Bash Tutorial should I be reading?
2. What is a clean/neat/??? way to double-click on the file name 
and have it:
     open a terminal window [currently it prompts rather than do]
     run the script
     have window remain open until explicitly dismissed
      [I approximate the last with a "read trashvariable" as 
last line.]
3. As written each line appears in the window followed by 
response on the next line.
  Inelegant ;<

Thanks for all the responses.