How do I run a shell script? (Debian)

Black Hawk · 11-30-2006, 11:37 AM

How do I run a shell script on a Debian box?

Thanks in advance

nx5000 · 11-30-2006, 11:40 AM

./shell-script will open a new shell and run shell-script, shell-script has to be executable (chmod +x shell-script)
. shell-script will run it in the current shell

revof11 · 11-30-2006, 01:10 PM

could just use "sh <yourscript>" too.

b0uncer · 11-30-2006, 01:23 PM

Quote:

could just use "sh <yourscript>" too.

...to run it using sh, but if there is some reason to run it in a different shell (usually scripts, in the first line, tell which shell should run them, though), you could use respectively

Code:

bash yourscript

(or ksh, csh, tcsh or some other shell instead of bash).

Most people just use

Code:

/path/to/the/script

or if it's in the current dir,

Code:

./script