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Subject: home dir executable (!/bin/sh,
	chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh <script>"
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I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on
the first line and chmod to executable.  That works with all my system
scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt.  When I do it
in my home folder, however, running <script> gives "command not
found".  I've only read about 5 sites telling you how to make shell
scripts executable, they all say the same thing, and they all don't
work.  How did I get to be so special?

Steve