Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:42:30 -0400 From: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> To: bob self <bobself@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't execute a script Message-ID: <20050910004230.GD15735@ayvali.org> In-Reply-To: <43220F9F.9050002@charter.net> References: <4321DC05.3050509@charter.net> <20050909212305.GC15735@ayvali.org> <43220F9F.9050002@charter.net>
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* bob self <bobself@charter.net> [2005-09-09 18:41:35 -0400]:
> 0000000: 2321 2f62 696e 2f73 680d 0a65 6368 6f20 #!/bin/sh..echo
^^
> 0000010: 2270 696e 6769 6e67 2e2e 2e2e 220d 0a "pinging...."..
Yup, that's your problem. This file is a DOS text file, so its end of
line is a <cr><nl> (0x0d 0x0a) instead of just <nl> (0x0a).
Normally, that doesn't matter because most Unix utilities are
multi-eol-format aware, but you can't have it in the shebang line
because the OS interprets the extra carriage as part of the command, so
it is looking for /bin/sh^M, which doesn't exist.
Use a utility like dos2unix or some a decent text editor to convert this
to a Unix file format and you'll be good to go.
Thomas
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