Hi, I get following error message when trying to execute a simple script :

stefan@linux:~/XMLMillZip131> ./myscript

bash: ./myscript: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

The script itself is:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 stefan users 56 Sep 4 23:56 myscript

and the content is:

#!bin/bash
echo "This is your dir:"
ls $HOME
echo "Done"

I checked the bin directory and the bash program exists:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 457528 Mar 23 19:56 bash

I browsed this forum but appareantly my problem can't be solved (I already copied the script to a Linux partition on my HD, thought that was the problem).

I get the same error when I am logged in as root.

If I type in:

stefan@linux:~/XMLMillZip131> bash myscript

then it works !

Please advice !

Shouldn't you have a / in front of bin/bash ?? Or is that just a typo ? Let us know !

Hi,

thx, how stupid of me not to see this.

OK, to summarize:

1. I changed to /bin/bash and now it works fine.
2. I copied the script back to my FAT32 partitions and .... it doesn't work there ! ?

Appareantly it is not a good idea to start executing scripts on a FAT32 partition, it is just good enough to shuffle files between my Windows and Linux OS.

Thx again for your support.

Stefan

it won't work there in that form as the file needs to have an executable bit set, which is not possible under fat32. you can always run it via "bash ./filename" instead though