have you made it executable? chmod +x helloworld
you will need to quote your message as <space> is the bash delimter, ie after World in your line it thinks you are finished the echo command. echo "Hello World" On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:29:32 +1300 Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, just trying a very simple hello world script > > #!/bin/bash > echo Hello World > > saved as helloworld > > Trying to run this ./helloworld > > returns > > bash: ./helloworld: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied > > whereis bash returns > > bash: /bin/bash /etc/bash/bash.rc /usr/share/man/man1/bash.gz > > This is the same whether logged in as root or not. What is happening here? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
