Hi All,

This might sound like a repeated problem but I feel it quite tough to find a solution. Here is the problem.

Assume the directory structure: /a/b/c/d/e

Current shell script is ksh
There is a SomeScript.sh file in e folder it has -rwxr-xr-x permission. I belong to "Others" and I can execute it as per the permissions. This script uses some environmental variables like $ABCROOT and $CONFIG_DIR, (say) which are exported inside that .sh script (I believe. because I do not have access to the source code of this script. I can only run it).

I did a CD to /a/b/c/d/e and tried executing this script using command csh SomeScript.sh

It gave me error saying

$ABCROOT=<some path>: command not found
export: Command not found
$CONFIG_DIR<some path>: command not found
export: Command not found

I then tried to include /a/b/c/d/e in $PATH by using export command. It did not work. I tried changing the shell to csh (it does not make sense anyway), it did not work even then.

What am I doing wrong? Any one? I am using Sun OS

Is this valid C shell syntax? The declarations are also not valid ksh or (ba)sh syntax.

What does line 1 of SomeScript.sh say (the "shebang")?

I wish I knew the answer. As I said I can not view the source code and I not sure what does the shebang say.

I even tried using ./SomeScript.sh That did not work either.

It seems to me that the problem is not with running SomeScript.sh. The problem is in SomeScript.sh itself.

You must be able to read the script. If you can't read it, you certainly can't execute it.

I did a cat SomeScript.sh and also vi SomeScript.sh In both ways it displayed some content which is not human readable. It was some junk... looked to me like as if I did a cat on binary executable.

Thanks for coming forward to help me out though!

Aha. A misleading filename then?! You can run

to see what it is.