Re: stand alone shell scripts

[Jonathan Jefferies]

Charles M Stapleton wrote:
> 
> What has to be dome to a script to make it run by itself?
> 
> I know that something like '!/bin/sh'  has to included at the beginning
> but I am not sure what.  What do I do to it so it can be executed from
> the command line without the 'sh' program proceeding it or './'  ?

chmod +x filename 
sets the permissions to executable.

J.