Shell Programming and Scripting

In Windows we use cmd.exe \c as the command SHell

What is its equivalent in UNIX ?


Thanx for all your help.

/bin/sh

anthing you pass to //bin/sh will get run as shell script.

That was a quick response. Thanx.

Just curious why would

/bin/sh ls command fail with Execute permission denied

but $ls works

all unix shell scripts start with #!/bin/sh
the #! is a statment to the kernal to run the following stuff with /bin/sh
if you where doing perl script the your first line would be #!/usr/bin/perl

what are you trying to get done?

if you are trying to do someting like a .BAT file then you will make a file starting with #!/bin/sh

I have a Java application which goes to the OS and runs unix utlities.
So its not running any shell scripts.
I needs to know the shell command line which I give it as /bin/sh as you mentioned

It will then go to the shell and run say commands like ls

/bin/sh ls which it fails with execute permission denied

now I understqand what your doing....
you should just be able to use "ls" or what ever directly.

you should not need /bin/sh for this kind of thing....

what command do you want to run??

The problem is the Java application runs the shell and then the ls command

So in the application it ask for the shell interpretor which I give /bin/sh

then it uses this to run the ls command or basic utilities.

Q:- why would $/bin/sh ls not work when
$ls works ?