Hello this is my first time using this forum. And I hope to one day be able to to be in this section assisting others.

I have a simple question and it is regaurding the running the shell script. I made a simple test script to go to the Documents directory and then ping www.yahoo.com. Now I know that I am using bash of course and once the script runs i get a error which shows



So here is the issue i know that !#/bin/bash has to be included in the first line of the script right? But when I run the script I get this error:

And yet the script executes as it should. And I have confirmed that 'bash' is in the ./bin subdirectory. May I get an explanation? Dose this message really matters? If so then I would like to know how, and what is the best solution to the problem. I would love to be enlightened on this. Thank you.

Hi. also first time user. if you delete that line and run bash with the name of your script as parameter

$ bash myscript.sh

bash will run your script.

the other way it to run it right away which you are doing.

./myscript.sh

your _current_ bash reads the contents (if the execute permission is set , see chmod) and reads the first line to see who is meant to be able to execute the following content of the file. the line is called a shebang (see wikipedia)

Please include waht you actually type in when you post pastes. including the content of your script is also useful to get the full context

That first line should begin with "#!", not "!#".

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In case there is a hidden character causing trouble, use this command
Assuming you have no spaces after #!/bin/bash, the first line should start with
If it does not, please post the output here.

EDIT: don't bother, rknichols has identified the problem.

thank you both of you all helpled. i learned something new and corrected my descrepency of !# when it was actually supposed to be #!. Thank your