/bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
 

First of all sorry about my bad English and hi to everybody
I am new to this forum. i have a problem that i haven't been able to solve yet. I use Debian testing as my distro, and i deleted by error my /bin/sh, i copied from another machine usin scp and tried "apt-get install --reinstall bash" but it does not seem to take any effect. please, if would thank it a lot...

Hi,

If you made the file in Windows notepad, it likely put in some extra characters which Linux doesn't like.
You could use tr to remove the \015 or just make the file in Linux using something like kwrite or vi editors.

For example:

maybe i haven't explained well my problem. i copied /bin/sh from another linux machine by 'scp anothermachine:/bin/sh/ /bin/' but it didn't work. if you had any other suggestion... thanks.

Sorry about that.

Maybe try: scp /bin/sh /bin

or maybe apt-get upgrade

Finally i have made a symlink from /bin/bash to /bin/sh
cd /bin; ln -s bash sh
and it seems to work.

Thanks for the help

on most linux distros /bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/bash

try making a symlink from /bin/bash --> /bin/sh