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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Works in shell but not script UNIX Post 302428306 by dunpealslyr on Wednesday 9th of June 2010 12:56:31 PM
Old 06-09-2010
I actually tried changing the beginning different ways and it does nothing to help...
#!/bin/sh
or
#!/bin/bash
#!/bin/sh
or
#!/bin/sh
#!/bin/bash

its funny because i run all kinds of date backup scripts in linux and it is just fine with those commands. my first attempt actually was as you suggested with the path stored in a variable, it just comes up with this error message stating that it cannot find the variable!

i am just getting familiar with the unix machine, but small things like this are driving me nuts. (specially since vim points to vi, it took me a few minutes to figure that out...)

is there any other reasons this would be occuring? i would think it should *just* work...

---------- Post updated at 11:56 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:33 AM ----------

I just copied and pasted your code exactly into my script and it says:

syntax error at line 4: `FILE=/public/appl-fp$' unexpected

the script files really dont like the dollar sign.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

shells

shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The  following  default	shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh,
       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
       /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).

FILES

       /etc/shells	       lists shells on system

SEE ALSO

       vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)

SunOS 5.10							    4 Jun 2001								 shells(4)
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