exec of shell scripts

marc_auslander@us.ibm.com marc_auslander@us.ibm.com
Mon Nov 2 17:57:00 GMT 1998


The readme's indicate a change in shell script handling - they say that #!
is now honored.

However, it appears that scripts with NO #! no longer work at all.

Similarly, scripts with a relative name after #! do not work, even thought
the name is in the path.

Both worked in B19.

All my experiments are under bash. I haven't looked at code so I don't know
for sure if this is bash behavior or exec behavior.

I have /bin/sh and /bin/bash.

Specific examples:

(/tmp) cat foo
echo a
(/tmp) /tmp/foo
bash.exe: /tmp/foo: No such file or directory


(/tmp) cat foo
#!sh
echo a
(/tmp) /tmp/foo
bash.exe: /tmp/foo: No such file or directory


(/tmp) cat foo
#!/bin/sh
echo a
(/tmp) /tmp/foo
a

Marc Auslander   <Marc_Auslander@us.ibm.com>   914 945-4346  (Fax x4425)


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