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

Barry Margolin

2007-12-11, 1:37 am

In article <475d485a$0$13120$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net>,
mlincoln100@hotmail.com (Matthew Lincoln) wrote:

> 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
>
> Hmm, why is there no such file ?'

Did you write the script on a Windows box and then copy it to Unix?
I'll bet it has Windows CRLF line terminators.

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