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

Carl Lowenstein

2007-12-30, 1:38 am

In article <fl5fepUqpbL1@news.in-ulm.de>,
Sven Mascheck <cus.x.mascheck@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>artix <info> wrote:
>
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>Then your problem was something different or your memory is fading
>about this. Linux and other well known kernels (e.g. *BSD), for
>which source is available, never had this issue.

I think you will find that the diagnostic
"bad interpreter: No such file or directory bin/bash"
can occur if the script is located in a file system that is mounted no-execute.

This happens infrequently, and the message is misleading, so it is hard
to track down.

carl
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