. I have downloaded some shell script but when I try to run these shell scripts I get error bad interpreter... How do I fix this error?
A. Make sure you have required shell installed. Each shell script specifies default interpreter at top of the script. For example, consider following script:
#!/bin/sh
# This is...
clear
A=`pwd`
...
.....
...
#!/bin/sh is default interpreter to execute this script. Use ls command to verify that you have /bin/sh installed
$ ls /bin/sh
If /bin/sh is not installed, use rpm, up2date or apt-get command to install required shell.
Another problem is if script was edited or written on MS-DOS platform, you will see CR/CRLF in script. Use dos2unix command to convert theses scripts to UNIX format.
dos2unix script-file-name
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thanks a lot my problem got solved, i tried all the ways when i used dos2unix it worked, I forgot that i edited the script previously in windows.
where do you use dos2unix?
I could not use it in command prompt and in unix
is there a dos2linux command?
thanks!
Thanks alot…it saves lot of time…