I just posted a GID Community blog entitled: A basic Bash Script.


Please let me know what you think.

I too have a great respect and fascination with bash scripts. They can be extremely simple (similar to a DOS batch file), but they can be extremely complex with functions, control loops, etc.

I usually place my bash scripts into /usr/local/bin which is part of the search path, but does not have any of the system executables placed there.

Good stuff J.

I too wrote 5 shell scripts and attempted to make them executable. They are in /usr/bin and i can go to / and call them by name, except for 1. they are:

backup - works fine calling from /
restore - works fine calling from /
clspool - works fine calling from /
idrestore - works fine caling from /

But idbackup will not call from / . I have to call it s follows:
/bin/ash /usr/bin/idbackup.

I cant figure why 4 will work and 1 will not

Interesting....

Are they all constructed in a similar manner?

Have you set the proper ownership/group info?

Just curious can you call it by just typing /usr/bin/idbackup? If not, I have to suspect that something is telling the kernel that it is not an executable file.

did you have #!/bin/bash in your first line of your idbackup script?