Re: Trivial script will NOT execute
Any chance the current directory is not in your path?
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John L. Ries |
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On 11/4/16 6:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Today I've been having weird problems executing scripts.
> As I have no valuable data on the partition containing Debian, I wiped
> it and did a fresh install of Debian Jessie (8.6.0) MATE desktop
> environment from a purchased set of DVDs. Earlier today I had had
> reason to create an *,iso of DVD1 of 13 using xorriso. The ISO had a
> MD5SUM matching the one at debian.org .
>
> More than a half-century of trouble shooting *screams* 'operator
> error' ;[
> But what????? [Caja reports the execute bit is set ;]
>
> Cut-n-paste from MATE terminal:
> root@full-jessier:~# #!/bin/bash -x
> root@full-jessier:~# cd /media/root/myrepo
> root@full-jessier:/media/root/myrepo# RCO
> bash: RCO: command not found
> root@full-jessier:/media/root/myrepo# ls
> lost+found new file RCO x2 xtract2 (copy)
> root@full-jessier:/media/root/myrepo#
>
>
> The content of RCO [with Linux line endings] is:
>
> F='dvd8_'
> N=0
> E='.iso'
> echo ""
> while true
> do
> read -p "press Enter (Ctrl+C to exit)" dummyvar
> let N=N+1
> FILENAME=$F$N$E
> echo $FILENAME
> echo ""
> echo "*********************"
> done
>
>
> Assistance appreciated.
>
>
>
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