i have the same problem half a year ago: you need a blank in the first
row of the script!
use:
#! /bin/bash
that should work...
bernd
Paul Howarth wrote:
Chris Norman wrote:
Hi,
I've got that, the only thing, when I run the script first hand, I get:
: Bad interpreter: No such file or directory
At the top, I have:
#!/bin/bash
I tried:
#!/bin/sh
But that got the same results. The permission bits are:
-rwxr--r-- root root
I'm running it as root.
No probs, I have fixed that, just re-wrote it, and it seemed to work.
You had probably created the script on a Windows box, which puts
carriage return characters at the end of each line that confuse shells
trying to interpret them.
> I have
another problem now though:
Tar says it can't "stat" ls, says there's no such file or directory.
here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
cd /var/ftp/backup;
for file in ls
do {
tar cf /home/backup/$file.tar.tar $file/
} done
What is the problem?
$file has only one value in this loop, "ls".
What you want is to capture the output of "ls" and use that:
for file in `ls`
or in bash (clearer)
for file in $(ls)
or (better still, you don't need ls at all)
for file in *
P.S. Please don't top-post on this mailing list.
Paul.
