Re: Bash-script – doesn't work in a launcher

[Leo Noordhuizen]

Johnny,

You answered your own question I think.

Leo

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2011/12/31 Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>:
> > On 31 December 2011 17:00, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Of course the first line of the script is #! /bin/bash. Well, except a
> >> few comment lines above it, but that shouldn't matter, should it?
> >>
> >> So it's basically something like this:
> >>
> >> # Comment
> >> # Continuation of comment
> >> # Another comment
> >> # More comments
> >>
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >
> > The hash-bang line needs to be the first line in the script. Move that
> > to the top of the script, stick in a "set -x" if you want to see
> > what's happening under the covers.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve
>
> Thanks, and also thanks to ”J” who wrote a similar reply. Yes, I moved
> it to the top and now it seems to work. It still doesn't work on my
> wife's computer though, I'm not sure why… She runs Ubuntu 10.04, so
> maybe there are some differences there, like older bash version or
> something like that. I'll take a closer look at it now.
>
> Still I wonder why it worked with the #!/bin/bash line not at the top
> when I ran it from a terminal, should it really…? Maybe because bash
> is default in a terminal?
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>
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