UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi -
I am running Mac OS X (Terminal) at my current workstation, and I would like to telnet to my local server to run a shell script. The local server is a Solaris machine (don't know the version or the type of Unix being run on it, sorry.)

The problem I have is that when I create a #!/bin/sh line, the local server doesn't recognize it . I run less on the .sh script file, so that I can see its contents and I only see the last three lines of the script.

Any suggestions for what I might be doing wrong? By the way, if it helps, the shell script file I created was made on the Mac, using BBEdit, but was saved as a Unix specific, Unix line breaks file. So, I should not be getting any "^M" character set issues with carriage returns.

Thanks for any suggestions you may have!

A possible solution is to Telnet to the server where you wish to create the script, and use VI to create it on the server it's self.

Certainly that's a possibility. However, my script is designed to go to that server and retrieve a bunch of files. Each time I run the script, I would be retrieving different files. Its easier to somehow batch these retrievals rather than have to edit the script in VI each time I want to run it. I would like to use Perl, ideally, but I just don't understand it well enough.