[SOLVED] Getting "bad interpreter: no such file or directory

cottonr · 01-24-2012, 11:54 AM

I've got a script that was edited with Windows Notepad before being copied onto a machine with RHEL. The script fails with the following message:

/bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: no such file or directory

My suspicion is that Notepad put in a control character (^M) that RHEL is now trying to interpret as part of the name of the script interpreter. Can anyone confirm if that is the case, or suggest a different problem might be at the bottom of this?

Thanks.

repo · 01-24-2012, 12:00 PM

yes, just remove it, and try again.

Kind regards

druuna · 01-24-2012, 12:01 PM

Hi,

Confirmed.

There are many ways to solve this, here are 2 that come to mind:
- Safe the file as normal ascii/text (seen from notepad that is),
- Use the dos2unix command in linux to convert the saved file.

Hope this helps

cottonr · 01-24-2012, 12:42 PM

Thanks to both of you. I used a combination of the suggestions you made and was able to get everything to work.