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I have downloaded a software tool on my suse guest. It is set to 777 and I have chown&chgrp it. I get into root and go to the dir where ...
  1. 04-23-2008 #1
    mace
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    trouble executing a command

    I have downloaded a software tool on my suse guest.
    It is set to 777 and I have chown&chgrp it.
    I get into root and go to the dir where the script is, but when I execute it
    I get command not found.
    I'm confused and don't kwon what else to change or where to look.
    Any help is greatly appreciated
    thanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by mace View Post
    I have downloaded a software tool on my suse guest.
    It is set to 777 and I have chown&chgrp it.
    I get into root and go to the dir where the script is, but when I execute it
    I get command not found.
    I'm confused and don't kwon what else to change or where to look.
    Any help is greatly appreciated
    thanks
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    DOH .. I hate when I do stupid stuff like that
    I did it but I'm still haveing a problem.
    I now get:
    bad interpreter: No such file or directory
    thanks
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  4. 04-23-2008 #4
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    I searched the forum and found the soloution
    perl -i -pe's/\r$//;'

    Now I need to find a perl book and figure out what the heck it is saying.
    thx
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    A few things to check:
    - are you using bash and is the script setup to use bash (does the shebang line point to bash or the shell you are using)?
    - is the file in unix format? the file may be in dos format and you can use the 'dos2unix' tool to convert it to a unix format file

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