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can't get a script to run

Asked by Richard Edell

I cannot get a script to run.

I have write a simple script to echo a word.

I chmod to 777 so all privleges are open.

I type the name of the script hello.sh and get command unknown.

I type just hello and get the same response.

What am I doing wrong.

I am trying to set up tomcat and can't seem to get any script to work.

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Óscar Rodríguez Ríos (ingorr01) said : 		#1

Try ./hello.sh , hello.sh isn't in the $PATH and then the shell can't execute. Another posibility if ./hello.sh fails is to add a first line to the script like this

#! /bin/bash

This indicates the shell that the file is a bash shell script, substitute bash with your shell (sh,tcsh,ksh...)

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