On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:30:53 +1300
Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:02:18 +1300
> > Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hi, I have the following file:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop> ls -l backup-data.sh
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 roger users 167 2007-03-09 10:18 backup-data.sh
> >>
> >> which if clicked from the desktop will create a tar file containing a
> >> few folders of files in the expected location.  Yet all my attempts to
> >> run from the command line fail to generate the tar file - having tried
> >> the following:
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop> sh ./backup-data.sh
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop> ./backup-data.sh
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop> sh /home/roger/Desktop/backup-data.sh
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop> /home/roger/Desktop/backup-data.sh
> >>
> >> None of the above work - what am I overlooking?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Roger
> >>
> >>     
> > what's the output from 
> >
> > sh -x ./backup-data.sh
> >
> >
> >   
> gemini:/home/roger/Desktop # sh -x ./backup-data.sh
> + /bin/bash
> 

and 

which bash

??

Is it possible just to paste the first 20 lines or so of the script? Just to 
check, the first line does say 

#!/bin/bash

doesn't it??

Steve

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