bash / sh not working (not recognized?)
 

I'm trying to run a very simple script file to troubleshoot the issue and I'm getting the following error:

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

The contents of the file are:

#!/bin/sh
echo "hello"

I've checked in /bin and I have both bash and a symb link to bash as sh. I've checked my path and I have the following:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.2.1/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin

Any suggestions? How can I better troubleshoot this?

Thanks.
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What did you name the file and did you make it executable?

And if the command is executable, is it in your current path? If not put a ./ in front of the command.

Good questions, trickykid.

I've named the file 'test' and it is executable (755).
Running it using ./test I get:

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Running it using '/bin/sh test' or '/bin/bash test' I get:

: command not found
hello

BTW, earlier I was getting an extra colon and dot at the end of my path. I fixed this by putting:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.2.1/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin

in my .bashrc file.

Have you tried changing your script to be /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh ?

Just did, same results. I ran into this issue a long while back on one of my servers and then it just went away.

Got it! Thanks to this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=136201 I was reminded of the issue I had before. I backed up these files to a Windows box and when I brought them back over Windows had changed the EOLs in the files making it so Linux couldn't read them - hense my error. Creating a fresh shell file or saving the file with a Linux editor fixed the issue.

Thanks all.