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Re: Q: executing shell scripts in beta 19
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- Subject: Re: Q: executing shell scripts in beta 19
- From: cgf at cygnus dot com (Christopher G. Faylor)
- Date: 1 Oct 1998 23:52:12 GMT
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <9810010831.AA17005.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp02.oce.nl>
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In article <9810010831.AA17005.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp02.oce.nl>,
Borre 'Wouse' Sanders <lsan@oce.nl> wrote:
>In Beta 18 I used to be able to execute scripts that are in the path
>using just a 'sh scriptname' type command line.
>As of beta 19 I have to include the full path to the script, as
>otherwise the script fails to execute, returning an error "can't open
>scriptname".
>
>"ls -l" shows that the scripts don't have an 'x' attribute set, which
>they should have, as they start with #! as supposedly is being
>checked (according to the FAQ) (by sh.exe I assume). May be the
>missing attribute is the problem. However, chmod doesn't help. Is
>this a bug or have I missed something that will get the scripts to
>run in the way they did in beta 18?
>
>Thanks in advance for useful suggestions.
Do you have "." in your path?
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