From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: Q: executing shell scripts in beta 19 1 Oct 1998 23:52:12 GMT Message-ID: <6v14jc$aj9$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <9810010831.AA17005.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp02.oce.nl> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <9810010831.AA17005.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp02.oce.nl>, Borre 'Wouse' Sanders wrote: >In Beta 18 I used to be able to execute scripts that are in the path >using just a 'sh scriptname' type command line. >As of beta 19 I have to include the full path to the script, as >otherwise the script fails to execute, returning an error "can't open >scriptname". > >"ls -l" shows that the scripts don't have an 'x' attribute set, which >they should have, as they start with #! as supposedly is being >checked (according to the FAQ) (by sh.exe I assume). May be the >missing attribute is the problem. However, chmod doesn't help. Is >this a bug or have I missed something that will get the scripts to >run in the way they did in beta 18? > >Thanks in advance for useful suggestions. Do you have "." in your path? -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/