bash scripting

OK I installed Mandrake 10 official and all things seem to be normal. I still get the same message when I try to run a bash script.

#!/bin/env
bash

shopt -s -o nounset

declare LINE

exec 3< /home/dave/scripts/test.dat

while read LINE <&3 ; do
printf "%s\n" "$LINE"
done

exit 0

and here is the error message I get.

[dave@dave scripts]$ ./new.sh
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[dave@dave scripts]$

Anyone have any ideas. I used whereis bash and it returned /bin/bash.
Everything seems normal and I guess I'm over my head. Anyone with any
suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
Dave

Dave Pomeroy K7DNP SouthEastern Washington

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Hi,
I just tried to run the '#!/bin/env bash ' version of this script and I got:================================================================= ===== jpk@debian:~/scratch$ ./test.sh
bash: ./test.sh: /bin/env: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
======================================================================
On my system env is in /usr/bin.
===================================

jpk@debian:~/scratch$ which env
/usr/bin/env
===================================
So this is essentially the same error as before - you are telling the
shell to run a program which is not where you say it is. 

You can use the original version of the program and pass the correct location of the bash interpreter to it. eg the first line should be something like:#!/correct/path/to/bash
Of course the /correct/path/to/bash on my system is /bin/bash

Or use the later version and pass the correct location of env to it. eg the first line should be something like:#!/correct/path/to/env bash On my system the /correct/path/to/env is /usr/bin/env

Both of these work on my system.

Here's hoping I have not added to your confusion :-)

regards,

John Kelly

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You made two changes, not one. You both changed the distro install ("installed Mandrake 10") -AND- changed the shebang line in the script ("#!/bin/env"). The second change is definitely wrong.

Go back to the original shebang line ("#!/bin/bash") and see if it works now. It does on my system (that is, I get errors, but they involve my not having a file named /home/dave/scripts/test.dat).

Or make the first line (probably; check where "env' is on your system) "#!/usr/bin/env bash". It too works here (up to the same error).

BTW, if I have the interpreter name wrong, I get a slightly different form of error message from you (on a Debian-Sid install). Here, I changed "bash" to "nash" and got this:

-bash: ./testscript.sh: /bin/nash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Not sure why you're not seeing all that stuff to the left of the ": bad interpreter" part. Could just be a difference between your default shell and mine (2.05b-19). Or it might indicate something odd about your script that is not making it through a representation as e-mail.

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