Shell Programming and Scripting

ok. the file name is "ss1.txt"
so i type

Code:

./ss1.txt

and i get this now.

"./ss1.txt: ./ss1.txt: cannot execute binary file"

But you said the script was called ss1. So what is ss1.txt, and why are you running it?

A slight modification to Corona's request:

Code:

ls -l ss1*

it is called ss1 but it is a text file. so i have to type "ss1.txt " to run it.
but i get that binary error

This is (presumably) UNIX or Linux you are using?

If your script is called ss1, you run it as ss1 - regardless of whether it's text or binary.

File extensions in UNIX are notional, not like Windows, with file associations, and all.

You didn't answer the ls -l question!

when i run

Code:

ls -l ss1*

i get this:
"ss1.txt"
and im on linux.

Linux doesn't have file extensions as you understand them(or text versus binary files either -- they're all just bytes as far as the OS is concerned.) The ".txt" is part of the filename proper, it won't fill in any sort of extension for you. And what the name is doesn't matter one bit -- you could make it ".exe", ".sh", ".omgwtfbbq", or leave off the extension entirely and Linux won't care. As long as the file's set executable it will try to run it. When it does so, it checks if the beginning of the file is the magic "#!" that means a script, or an ELF header for compiled programs.

So, "ss1.txt", the whole thing, is the file name.

I'm a bit lost here

So, where is your "hello world" script?

Let's start again, because this isn't getting us anywhere

Show the full output of these commands:

Code:

ls -l ss1*
file ss1*
cat ss1*