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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:09:14 -0400
From:      "Hongbin Yang" <yanghb@sympatico.ca>
To:        "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: question to run linux program
Message-ID:  <002201c218b7$e0c601f0$0100a8c0@YANGTX>
References:  <001201c2187d$5e8be400$0100a8c0@YANGTX> <20020620225507.GA69670@dan.emsphone.com>

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I got it. It means that freebsd provides linux emulator for all of kinds of
shells.

Thanks Dan.

yang

> In the last episode (Jun 20), Hongbin Yang said:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As we know "brandelf" can be use to run linux binary.
> >
> > Now my question is : I have a linux application. Its executable is a
> > piece of script. The line that starts the job is "exec XXXXX ......".
> > How can I change to make it run in freebsd box?
>
> If what you're saying is you have a Linux software package, with
> scripts and binaries in it, and the binaries run fine, but you also
> want the scripts to run in Linux emulation as well, you can edit the
> first line of the scripts to read
>
> #! /compat/linux/bin/sh
>
> (or bash, if that's what they had before).
>
>
> If you're saying you have a standalone shell script and you want to run
> it, just run it.  It'll work.
>
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@allantgroup.com
>




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