On 02/06/2010 08:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> >>> Can anyone explain why this doesn't work? I've been writing shell >>> scripts on and off for several decades and I can't see what's going on >>> here. Is senility setting it? >>> >>> $ cat> tst >>> #!/bin/sh >>> echo foo >>> $ chmod +x tst >>> $ ls -l tst >>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 poc poc 19 2010-02-06 10:22 tst >>> $ type tst >>> tst is ./tst >>> $ tst >>> bash: ./tst: Permission denied >>> >>> (SElinux is off, if it matters). >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I'm fairly sure you need the ./tst incantation unless you have . in your >> $PATH. I recall somewhere, sometime a warning against that....but I've >> ignored it for years and haven't had a problem. I even forgot what the >> warning was all about. >> >> >> > I retract that last paragraph as rubbish...as I misread "permission > denied"... > > check to see what shell /bin/sh actually refers to. Usually /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash but it doesn't have to be. You can also try to run /bin/bash -x tst and see what happens. Paolo -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
