Ive been following a tutorial and Ive come to a part about writing and executing shellcode. It told me to create a file called myfile.sh, and then to run the command "chmod 0755 myfile.sh". I did this, and it appeared to work; it turned the file name green when I view it with the ls command. Well, anyway, it then told me to open it up and write a few shell script commands into it just to basically get the hang of executing these files. So I wrote a simple shell script, just echoing some things, and then I saved it. Well, when I tried to run it via "./myfile.sh" it gave me the following error:

-bash: ./myfile.sh: bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

The no such file or directory part didnt seem to make much sense to me, because I can see that the file IS there. I also tried making another file and doing the exact same thing but without the chmod part. That gave me a "Permission denied" error message. I then thought that maybe I didnt have sufficient permission on this account, so I switched to root and tried again and got the same results. I have tried everything I can think of, but maybe its something that should be obvious. I have only had linux a few days, so Im still learning.

If anyone can help me out with this, Id really appreciate it. Until then Ill just skip over this part of the tutorial. Thanks.

/bin/sh should be just a symlink to /bin/bash
also make sure /bin/sh is in your $PATH

/bin/sh is in my path, Im still getting the error though. Any other ideas?

Make sure your shebang is correct... ie, the first line of your script should be:
Substiture /bin/bash with whatever shell you normally use.

It seems that you missed a slash somewhere

Like Azmeen said:

What is the first line in ./configure? That's what bash is complaining about.

Can you run any shell script?

Ah, we have a winner... my script origionally was just this:

#!bin/sh
echo "Hello there!"

But now I changed it to

#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello there!"

And it works perfectly fine... now I can continue with this tutorial. Thanks for the help, I was definitely looking for this problem in the wrong place.

I had a similar problem but the solution for me was different. I was going through the script tutorial on my Windows workstation and had copied and pasted the "Hello World" script into my windows text editor and then SSH'd the script to my Linux box. I was getting the same "bad interpreter" error unitil I opened the script again in a linux editor and resaved it. It turns out that linux uses a different end of file marker than DOS/Windows and the script would not run until it had been corrected for linux.
You can also use: dos2unix < oldfile > newfile
to convert the dos/windows file to a valid linux file.