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Re: #! not a recognized internal or external command
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:47:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: #! not a recognized internal or external command
- References: <blht48$vhh$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:08:25PM -0700, Neil Messmer wrote:
> I have just installed the latest version of cygwin and get the following
> error message when running my scripts while running cygwin under Win XP. It
> does not matter what shell I specify for the script.
>
> My paths on the win pc is set to /usr/local/bin; /usr/bin; /bin;
> /usr/x11r6/bin.
>
> The simple test script contains one line:
> #! /bin/tsch
s/tsch/tcsh
but the *real* problem is that you're trying to start a shell script
under cmd.exe. That won't work. The error message is generated by
cmd.exe because it correctly doesn't recognize #! as a command. The
#! syntax requires support by the starting application, in your case,
by Cygwin. If the starting application is not a Cygwin shell, you
must start the script as a parameter to the right shell:
C:\foo> tcsh script-name
Corinna
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