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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help with -exec cp command. Post 302234435 by bakunin on Tuesday 9th of September 2008 04:38:06 PM
Old 09-09-2008
Hmmm....

You said that the value of "$SHELL" is "/bin/bash" somewhere up in this thread. You also said, that "which bash" gives the same output, "/bin/bash". Am i correct so far?

Because if i am, i don't understand the "bad interpreter" error message. It looks like the script is unable to load a new instance of /bin/bash to execute the script in it, but the location is the same as indicated by the value of "$SHELL" and the which command.

Please run the following command from the commandline and post the output here:

Code:
ls -lai /bin/bash
file /bin/bash
what /bin/bash

Additionally please post the line of the file /etc/passwd for root. One of the fields in this file is the login shell for the user and in your case, assuming your user is "root", it should look similar to that:

Code:
root:!:0:0:root user:/home/root:/bin/bash

If it is not "/bin/bash" we know at least why the "bad interpreter" message comes from.

It might - as a remote chance - be that the file is either corrupted or a link to some other file which i would like to find out with the other commands. It might - also a remote chance - be that there is something overmounted via NFS (in this case you are in really deep kimchi), so please post the output of the "mount" command.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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DIRNAME(1)							   User Commands							DIRNAME(1)

NAME

       dirname - strip last component from file name

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