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From: watpod77@alfred.carleton.ca (Andrew Cornwall)
Subject: Re: why isn't #! /bin/sh working for me on 386BSD?
Message-ID: <1993Jan19.215030.22775@cunews.carleton.ca>
Keywords: 386bsd
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 21:50:30 GMT
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In article <1jhmnkINNl5v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> au141@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Amber M. Spillers) writes:
> correct me if I am wrong butthe line
>
>#! /bin/sh
>
> at the beginning of a shell script (the first line) is suposed to
>invoke the SH shell and execute the script under it right?
>ksh and it refuses to invoke the correct shell to execute my scripts. :(
>
> well for me it does not seem to do that. I am using csh or bash ot
>ksh and it refuses to invoke the correct shell to execute my scripts. :(
The same is true for tcsh... I don't know what part of BSD invokes the
shell specified in a script, but it ain't getting done. This is why
you see "} missing" when you run nroff under a shell other than
/bin/sh. Does anyone know how to fix it? 'Cos I don't... :-(
Andrew Jr.
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Andrew Cornwall
watpod77@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca