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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers can't understand this at all. Post 302107591 by severndigital on Monday 19th of February 2007 10:10:53 AM
Old 02-19-2007
can't understand this at all.

Ok, i've been trying to write some shell scripts. nothing challenging, but just automating

All of the tutorials i read say to start the file with

#!/bin/bash

or whatever your path to bash is.

So i do it, and all of my scripts error out saying ./nameofscript:command not found

when i remove the line completely the script seems to run ok. Why??

I understand the easy answer is to say "so just leave the line out" but I really would like to understand why it's happening.

thanks,
chris
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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