I'm working on a sig generator install file that will do everything you need to get my random sig generator working. The problem is that one of my scripts won't run. Full text is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
rm -f ~/.signature
~/.random/sig > ~/.signature

The last two lines run fine when I execute them manually in an xterm. I also tried sourcing the last two lines. A script gives me the error:

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

(Filename is "change") Any ideas as to why this happens and how I can fix it?


Thanks.

did you make sure the file is executable with chmod command.. ??

It executes, as I've got it chmoded to 755, but the shell gives me that error.

I also copied it to another filename and chmoded it to 6xx, then did:

source <filename>

But it gave me an error as well.

I think that depends on which shell or version of linux/unix you are using. I tried it in linux with the bash shell and there the ~ was recognized. But I also tried it on a Digital Unix system with the korn shell and there it gave an error saying ~ is unknown. You could try either using the full path or ommiting the first line which makes it start a new shell which doesn't have the ~ set.

Don't know if anyone made this discovery yet....

I had the same problem and made the following discovery
about the script I was trying to execute but was receiving the 'bad interpreter' message (Redhat Linux 7.3].
The script looked fine when I opened it in vi, btw.
and I could execute the script fine by calling it directly with
perl (it was a perl script).

When you invoke vi in Linux, the editor "vim" is invoked
(because of the alias vi=vim).
vim recognizes both dos and unix file formats.
When I vi'd the file, it appeared fine but the
fileformat (when you first open) stated the file was [dos].
I issued command ":set fileformat=unix" in vi (vim) and
saved. After that, the script ran fine.

Bottom line is the file hae the dos end-of-line character(s) instead
of the unix newline. I guess Perl handles the dos format but bash
does not.