Unix Shell - Re: How to setup a simple shell script? "bad interpreter: No such file or directo

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Re: How to setup a simple shell script? "bad interpreter: No such file or directo

Joachim Schmitz

2007-12-10, 1:20 pm

"Matthew Lincoln" <mlincoln100@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I wanted to setup a simple shell script "test3" with some commands inside.
>
> I started the script with
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ....
>
> When I call the script I got the error:
>
> : bad interpreter: No such file or directorybin/bash
This looks like you have a backspace or other junk in your script

> Hmm, why is there no such file ?
> If I type at the shell:
>
> echo $SHELL
>
> then I got the reply:
>
> /bin/bash
>
> Moreover /bin/bash exists!!
>
> So how do I setup a shell script otherwise?
>
> Am I forced to append a ".sh" extension?
No!

> Matthew
Bye, Jojo