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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help with -exec cp command. Post 302234451 by bakunin on Tuesday 9th of September 2008 05:56:34 PM
Old 09-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by bbbngowc
Here's the output from the commands you gave above:
98169 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 626028 Feb 11 2003 /bin/bash

/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
Ok, this all looks good. /bin/bash looks like it is the executable it is supposed to be. I don't understand why the first line of the script, which should be:

Code:
#! /bin/bash

leads to an error. Have you checked there are no special characters in it or after it? Try to retype the first line of the script. There should be no characters left from the text (that is, the octothorpe "#" has to be the first character on the line) and there should be no characters trailing.

You wrote that it worked now. What exactly have you done to make it work?

bakunin
 

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NAME

       dircmp - directory comparison

SYNOPSIS

       n] dir1 dir2

DESCRIPTION

       examines  dir1  and  dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories.  Sorted listings of files that
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EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

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SEE ALSO

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