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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:07:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: "M. R. Brown" <marcusb AT csd DOT uwm DOT edu>
To: Johan & Lydia Holtman <jholtman AT dds DOT nl>
cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: B20.1 Can't execute shell scripts
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Johan & Lydia Holtman wrote:

> 
>    bash: file://d/unixtools/ii.sh: No such file or directory
> 
> My path is:
> 
>   file://d/unixtools:/d/CYGNUS~1/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin:/c/WINNT/SYSTEM32
> etc,, including '.'.
> 
> Alternative II:
> 
>   ./ii.sh
> 
> Gives the same error: No such file or directory.
> 
> ONLY by executing "bash ii.sh" or "sh ii.sh" the command is executed.
> 

Did you make sure to insert a sh-bang ("#!/bin/sh" without the quotes) at
the top of your script?  If you want to execute the command without
explicitly calling bash, this must be the _first_ line in your script.
Also, this convention will only work within the bash interpreter.

Marcus


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