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Re: Can't execute shell script as wish subprocess, exes work
- From: Martin <linkscrazy at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:30:06 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Can't execute shell script as wish subprocess, exes work
--- Jukka Laurila <jplauril@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm unable to run shell scripts in wish using
>
> open [list | my-shell-script]
>
> The error I get is
>
> couldn't execute "my-shell-script": no such file or directory
>
> - the shell script is set as executable
> - it starts with "#!/bin/sh"
> - /bin/sh is executable
> - the directory where my-shell-script is is in PATH
> - running .exe's in that same directory in the same way
> works fine
> - using the command
>
> open [list | sh my-shell-script]
>
> the shell script works fine.
>
> Ideas?
>
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wish shell distributed with cygwin is not a cygwin app, it is a windows
app. So, it doesn't know anything about #! syntax.
Try exec sh -c <script> or open | sh -c <script>.
Martin
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