Fwd: UPDATE: Newbie bash user problem--interactive bash will not run my scripts!

[Egor Duda]

Hi!

Friday, 01 September, 2000 Jason Tishler Jason.Tishler@dothill.com wrote:

>> Still  no  luck  on  working,  but  I  have run some tests and have
>> cygcheck diagnostics. BTW, I *do* have '.' (and also tried './') on
>> my path in various places.
>> 
>> Here is the one-line (or two) shell script (test.sh) that I'm using as a
>> test:
>> 
>>     echo "We did it!"
>> 
>> Here is the output calling this script (and me typing a comment before each
>> invocation):
>> 
>> /cygdrive/c/Work/gc/distrib 320%># Only the one line shown in the script:
>> /cygdrive/c/Work/gc/distrib 321%>test.sh
>> BASH.EXE: ./test.sh: No such file or directory
>> /cygdrive/c/Work/gc/distrib 322%># I've now added #!/bin/sh as first line to
>> sc
>> ript:
>> /cygdrive/c/Work/gc/distrib 323%>test.sh
>> We did it!
>> /cygdrive/c/Work/gc/distrib 324%># I've now added #!/bin/bash as first line
>> to
>> script:
>> /cygdrive/c/Work/gc/distrib 325%>test.sh
>> We did it!
>> /cygdrive/c/Work/gc/distrib 326%>

the  reason  is simple. bash starts only files that have permission to
execute. you can check file permissions by typing

% ls -la test.sh

you're  running  w98,  and thus have no ntsec features (ntsec emulates
unix  permissions  by native ones). when running without ntsec, cygwin
does  a  little  trick to determine which files should have executable
bit  in their permissions -- it set this bit only for files with .exe,
.cmd and .bat extensions and those which starts with magic symbols #!

note that if you try to start your script like that

% bash -c test.sh

it will work in all 3 cases, since for '-c' parameter bash won't check
permissions

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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