Re: nano question

On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> 
> 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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Justin,

Extra green paper(s) to the Director !! :-)

Thanks,

János