Hey guys

I am having trouble with a shell script again.

I want to write a little shell script (bash) to execute two cgi-scripts which are stored in two different directories.

The problem is that it is not enough when I specify the path where the scripts are and then execute them. Whenever I want to start them from the commandline I have to do the following steps:

cd /somewhere/great/
/somehwhere/great/cgi-script

So I have to change into the directory and whenever I want to start the script I have to type in the location again with the script name.

So how do I do this in a script? I have to force the script to change into the directory and THEN execute the script with the full path name again.

THX

Suinatsa

It could be and I rusty at this so I could be wrong. That the directory where they are is not executable, try ls -lad in the directory. This will tell you the permissions.
Also why don't you add this directory to your path ? Then you will be able to run the script without putting the path.

Hey,


thanks for the reply. System aka root is running this script and the permissions are ok.
I added the directory to PATH with

PATH=/somewhere/great:$PATH
and whenever I do
echo $PATH
it is in the list so that is ok. But still when I run the script it gives me the error that I am not in the directory.

Does the script runs every command from the directory where it is executed from?

THX

Suinatsa

Could you print your whole script ?

Hi,

What happens if you:

cd /tmp
/somehwhere/great/cgi-script

What error messages are displayed?

echo $PATH

What is displayed?