[linux-help] Re: program won't execute.

[Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, mjacobs wrote:

> root@hal:/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/mh/bin > ./configure
> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

This isn't bash saying it can't find configure, it's bash saying that
configure executed a command that generated an error of "No such file or
directory".  You script is executing, but it has a bug.  

Generally, you get this error, it means you're using a #! construct (like
#!/bin/sh) and bash can't find whatever program you've told it to
use.  But you say you're using #!/bin/sh and /bin/sh exists... make sure
there aren't any typos.  Delete the line and retype it to eliminate hidden
characters.  (If the script came from a DOS environment (like when my wife
edits files from her Windows box using Samba) and there's a CRLF on the
end of the line, bash is looking to execute /bin/sh<CR>.)  

If the first command after that is 'echo', make sure that echo is in the
path or you indicate the full path 

--
Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
BASIC programmers never die, they GOSUB without RETURN.




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