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Old 6th November 2010
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Default Bash script cannot execute - Is a directory

Whenever I execute a bash script, I get this error:

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$ ./script.sh  
hello world
./script.sh[3]: /home/guitarscn: cannot execute - Is a directory
Here is the script:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "hello world"
Why is this?
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Old 6th November 2010
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It is not a bash script, it is a ksh script. Do you have a 'ksh' in /bin?
Code:
$ ls -l /bin/ksh
-r-xr-xr-x  3 root  bin  410744 Apr  4  2010 /bin/ksh
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Whoops, I meant it was a ksh script, sorry, a bit used to bash scripting

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$ ls -l /bin/ksh
-r-xr-xr-x  3 root  bin  384084 Aug 16 10:48 /bin/ksh
Yea, I made sure it was there beforehand
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Quote:
./script.sh[3]: /home/guitarscn: cannot execute - Is a directory
This says the error occurs at line 3, but there are only two lines in the script you posted (...?)
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Yea, I don't have a newline there either...this is what I don't understand

If you're on OpenBSD (4.8-Release for me) could you try making the same script and see if it reproduces the same error?
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Assuming the execute has been set, you could check whether you not accidently entered some control characters
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$ hexdump -C script.sh
00000000  23 21 2f 62 69 6e 2f 6b  73 68 0a 65 63 68 6f 20  |#!/bin/ksh.echo |
00000010  22 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77  6f 72 6c 64 22 0a 0a     |"hello world"..|
0000001f
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Okay, I just deleted the file and made a new file, and now suddenly it works...must've been something invisible. I'm kind of curious as to what it was but it seems to be fine now.
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If you had done a hexdump as j65nko suggested we might have known
Maybe there is still a backup file in /tmp?
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Mmm...nothing there except a couple X-related files and an xmms dump
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