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RE: Help running bash scripts
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'cygwin'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:27:14 -0000
- Subject: RE: Help running bash scripts
On 22 November 2006 05:24, David Christensen wrote:
> Thierry wrote:
>> running a simple sh script(test.sh):
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # test
>
>> $ ./test.sh
>>> command not found
>
> Get this book:
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash3/index.html
>
>
> "test" is a Bash built-in command ("man bash"; see CONDITIONAL
> EXPRESSIONS). Avoid using that keyword in Bash scripts and anywhere
> else Bash might trip over it (such as script and program names).
"test" != "test.sh". No confusion is at all possible. Bash is not DOS and
does not attempt to append .exe/.com/.bat extensions to every command filename
entered, and nor does it try appending .sh either.
cheers,
DaveK
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