<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 26/07/10 16:37, Paul Sladen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:Pine.LNX.4.21.1007261631080.2249-100000@starsky.19inch.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, ByteSoup wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">sudo cp <filename> /usr/share/bin was /usr/share/bin normally a symlink to another directory anyway? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> '/usr/share/bin' does not normally exist. You have just created it (as a file). You can read about the purpose of '/usr/share/*' over in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA">http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA</a> "The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture independent data files.". Perhaps you were after '/usr/local/bin/' ? -Paul </pre> </blockquote> Ha ha! Thanks to everyone who replied... your right! I was trying to put the shell script into the common directory thats in your normal path as a user /usr/local/bin. I blame turning 40 this year :-P Anyway the "cp" command wont allow you to overwrite a directory with a file normally will it? I thought Id just missed the trailing space and begun to worry. Thanks to everyone who replied :-) -Mark </body> </html>