Re: up2date demo mode?

[shane c branch <scbranch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Haxby wrote:

> shane c branch wrote:
>
> > that crossed my mind as well. i tried it with #!/bin/bash and got the 
> > same error.
> >
> > i double checked the permissions by doing
> > #chmod u+x scriptname.sh
> >
> > then tried to run it, but again got the error.
> Check that the first line is *exactly* "#!/bin/bash" (or whatever) -- in 
> particular make sure that there isn't a CR at the end of the line.    If 
> you do "cat -vet script" (where "script" is the file in question), you 
> should see the first line shown as
>
>    #!/bin/bash$
>
> ($ represents end of line)    The "#" character is the first one in the 
> file, but I think the error message you've been getting indicates 
> that.    If you have
>
>    #!/bin/bash^M$
>
> at the beginning of the file then you've managed to get a file with CRLF 
> line terminators -- in this case "dos2unix" is your friend.   You should 
> work out how you managed to get a scripit created like this so that you 
> don't do it again :-)
>
> jch
that was it! thanks.

i believe i know the error now. i opened the file in jedit under 
windows, to check that first line. i forgot to change the buffer option 
the unix format before saving the file.

it runs succesfully now.

thanks again.

--

regards,

shane


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