Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

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On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:51:50 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 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

Try specifying the full path name to the script, as in:

root@full-jessier:~# /media/root/myrepo/RCO

or

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.
>
>


Thanks,
Jason