Re: sh script

2011-10-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 2/10/11 at 01:36, dougl...@macnauchtan.com (Doug McNutt) wrote: What I was thinking is that running the shell script from within bbedit might be done by the Bare Bones folks using procedures that come through AppleScript.. Somewhere I got the idea that your script runs fine from a

Re: sh script

2011-10-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/10/11 at 02:50, dougl...@macnauchtan.com (Doug McNutt) wrote: Your file may need to have it's execute permissions bit set. Bash is a default for shell scripts. You might not need it and without it the text file, executable or not, would be passed to bash by default. It's amusing to see

Re: sh script

2011-10-02 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good evening, On 2/10/11 at 7:51 AM +0100, Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com wrote: I did set the execute permissions a la: Check your line breaks in the script file; are they set to LF or CR? What happens when you run the script from Terminal? Charlie -- Ꮚ Charlie Garrison ♊

Re: sh script

2011-10-02 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:13 +0100 10/2/11, Phil Dobbin wrote: I got it working on the command line by cd'ing to the directory it was located in giving it an absolute path using ~/ AppleScript is well known for not running startup scripts for shells. Your $PATH variable may not be what you think.. That tilde I

sh script

2011-10-01 Thread phildobbin
Hi, all. I'm trying to run a shell script I'm getting This file doesn't appear to contain a valid 'shebang' line (application error code: 13304). Shebang line in my script is: '#! / bin/bash'. Pretty stock 10.6.8 install with bash in /bin /bin is in my $PATH. Using BBEdit 9.6.3. Any help

Re: sh script

2011-10-01 Thread Chip Warden
Hey Phil, It looks like you have a space in your shebang line where it shouldn't be. The line should look like: #!/bin/bash not: #! /bin/bash Try that. Have a good day, Chip On Oct 1, 2011, at 9:18 AM, phildobbin wrote: I'm trying to run a shell script I'm getting This file doesn't

Re: sh script

2011-10-01 Thread John Delacour
At 15:30 -0500 1/10/11, Chip Warden wrote: It looks like you have a space in your shebang line where it shouldn't be. The line should look like: #!/bin/bash not: #! /bin/bash I know Wikipedia occasionally gives a bum steer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_bum_steer but here's what it says

Re: sh script

2011-10-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/10/11 at 21:30, chip.war...@gmail.com (Chip Warden) wrote: It looks like you have a space in your shebang line where it shouldn't be. The line should look like: #!/bin/bash not: #! /bin/bash Hi, Chip. I did notice the erroneous space deleted it but it still throws the same error.

Re: sh script

2011-10-01 Thread Doug McNutt
At 23:18 +0100 10/1/11, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 1/10/11 at 21:30, chip.war...@gmail.com (Chip Warden) wrote: It looks like you have a space in your shebang line where it shouldn't be. The line should look like: #!/bin/bash not: #! /bin/bash Hi, Chip. I did notice the erroneous space deleted

Re: sh script

2011-10-01 Thread Steve deRosier
It's amusing to see what happens when bbedit or AppleScript creates an instance of bash which then creates yet another instance of bash because of the #! line. It makes one wonder just how smart the UNIX kernel is. -- That's not exactly a kernel responsibility. - Steve -- You received