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Re: Can't execute shell script as wish subprocess, exes work


On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jukka Laurila wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Brett Serkez wrote:
>
> > It appears your PATH doesn't include the directory for my-shell-script.
>
> As I said, my PATH _does_ include that directory (/cygdrive/c/users/bin).
>
> > If you changed:
> >
> > open [list | my-shell-script]
> >
> > to
> >
> > open [list | /full/path/to/my-shell-script]
> >
> > does it work?
>
> No. I get the same error.
>
> Another data point: The same error occurs also with:
>
>   exec my-shell-script
>
> and again, the command
>
>   exec sh my-shell-script
>
> works fine.

Could it be that $SHELL isn't set correctly?
	Igor
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