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Subject: home dir executable (!/bin/sh,
	chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh <script>"
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Steve Franks writes:

>  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?

	"command not found" makes my first guess a PATH problem.
	What happens when you use:

> <full path>/script_name

	or

> ./script_name


					Robert Huff