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Subject: Re: how do you get a script to run
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"Gregory Stearns" <stearns@mail.com> writes:

> I can not get the script I wrote to run on Free BSD 4.7.

If it is an sh-type script, then "sh <script-name>" should work,
regardless of how anything else is configured.  If it is a csh-type
script, "csh <script-name>" should work.

There are a lot of other things you should know along this line; 
a decent tutorial on shell scripting would be a good place to start.