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Subject: Re: Newbie need help to execute a shell script
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Thanks Dima for answering...but it is getting weird.. I had tried of
course your suggestion which is to include #!/bin/sh as the firs line
and it didn't work..that is why I asked the question to the list.

But I tried also adding [START]...[END] in my script like you did...
even if I was sure that you put only to delemit the script... and here
is what my shell answers:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: not found
Date and time is:
[END]: not found
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So it looks like the shell is  now finding my command but is having a
problem with the first line..I would have expected to received "[START]:
not found" as the first line. What is strange is that if I remove the
1st and last line in the script {START] and [END]... I get again the
message "command not found". ANy idea what is wrong with that shell?

CLaude

Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to execute a small shell script and always received the
> > "command not found" error.
> >
> > This is the "display" shell script:
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > # This script displays "Date and time is:"
> > echo "Date and time is:"
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > I am trying this from a tcsh shell. When I start a Bourne shell and type
> > the same "display" command, I get "no such file or directory".
> >
> > The "display" script is in my path and it has "rwx" permissions.
> >
> > I even try ./display while sitting in the directory where the script is,
> > but to know avail.
> >
> > Any suggestions... this is probably very basic... but remember I am a
> > newbie with Unix.
> 
> You need to put ``#!/bin/sh'' at the top so the system knows that it's
> a shell script, and which shell to execute it with.  So it'd look
> something like:
> 
> [START]
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Date and time: `date`"
> <the rest>
> [END]
> 
> Change ``/bin/sh'' to whatever shell you want it to be run with.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> --
> Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
> Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key.
> 
> "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
>         -- Charles F. Kettering


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