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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash - command - PATH question
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:59:21 -0700
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On 05/19/2010 06:50 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> Given that 'foo' is a bash script, why is it that:
>
> $ foo
>
> returns the error:
>
> bash: ./bin/foo: No such file or directory
>
> BUT since foo is *really in* PATH, e.g.,
>
> $ `which foo`
>
> runs correctly?
Usually this means that foo is in "DOS" mode and contains extra carriage 
returns. So your she-bang line (i.e. #!/bin/bash) is actually 
#!/bin/bash<cr>, a file that doesn't exist. Do a dos2unix foo and you 
should be fine.
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