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Re: Problems with .EXE files overriding shell scripts in PATH.
- To: sdelrio at home dot com
- Subject: Re: Problems with .EXE files overriding shell scripts in PATH.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:29:20 -0400
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <000001c0cdbb$9dbcabe0$01de6f0a@CSDR.CA>
- Reply-To: Cygwin Users <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Sergio Del Rio wrote:
>
> For the most part, all shell scripts that I have are found by bash if they
> are in the PATH.
>
> I am trying to write a script that overrides an existing SQLPLUS.EXE file
> that is also in the path. I created a script called sqlplus and placed it
> into /usr/local/bin which is the first thing in the path. What I notice is
> that the sqlplus shell script is not getting executed at all, the system is
> executing the SQLPLUS.EXE program which is found later on in the path.
>
> Why does this happen?
>
> How can I get around it?
>
Is the first line of your script `#!/bin/sh'?
Earnie.
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