Re: nano question

On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:56 , János Löbb wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I am Remote Desktop-ing to a machine and launch nano in a terminal to create some start ans stop files.  Here is one:
> 
> bml0066:tomcat administrator$ cat start1.sh
> #!/bin/sh  Startup script for the tomcat1 instance

Your problem is here.  The man page for 'bash' says

       If the program is a file beginning with #!, the remainder of the  first
       line  specifies an interpreter for the program.  The shell executes the

So the line should not be viewed as starting with "#" (i.e., a comment), but with "#!" (i.e., specifying an interpreter for the rest of the file).

The cure is to move the comment to a separate line.

HTH

Justin

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