Bash Script

[The Mad One]

I really need help with this bash script and i have NO idea how whats wrong with it let alone how to fix it, its basically a script to start 3 programs in one command so it should be "simple"

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#!/bin/sh
# This is the crontab script for pisg.
#
# Please change the following path to your pisg-directory.

PISG=~/pisg
PEPISG=~/pepisg
STATS=~/psychostats

# the rest should be kept as is

echo "Starting IRC Stats Processing.."
cd $PISG
./pisg --silent
echo "Completed!"
cd ~/

echo "Starting PE IRC Stats Processing.."
cd $PEPISG
./pisg --silent
echo "Completed!"
cd ~/

echo "Starting Server Stats Processing.."
cd $STATS
nice ./stats.pl
echo "All Jobs Completed!"

but when i start it i get this message:

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

i know its something to do with this "#!/bin/sh" but i dont know what to do with it when i remove it and start this script i just get this junk:
[WeOwn@oracle (~)]$ ./stats
: command not found
: command not found
: command not found
Starting KOD IRC Stats Processing..
: No such file or directory/WeOwn/pisg
./stats: line 14: ./pisg: is a directory
Completed!
: No such file or directory/WeOwn/
: command not found
Starting PE IRC Stats Processing..
: No such file or directory/WeOwn/pepisg
./stats: line 20: ./pisg: is a directory
Completed!
: No such file or directory/WeOwn/
: command not found
Starting KOD Server Stats Processing..
: No such file or directory/WeOwn/psychostats
: No such file or directory
All Jobs Completed!

any help would be apreciated :/

[Photon]

It would be helpful to know which shell you are actually running...

for example, it could be

#!/bin/bash (like on debian....) or #!/bin/ksh - the list goes on.

Unfortunately I cant remember how to discover which shell you are actually running... I think there is a command which will show it up, so try searching the web.

[EDIT]

Having reread the topic title, I'm guessing its #!bin/bash

[The Mad One]

I'm with pyroshells and they are running FreeBSD 4.7 stable

but as I said in my first post #!/bin/bash and #!/bin/sh

both give this error:

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

[Photon]

Actually you didnt mention that...

I take it you have chmodded it correctly - other than that go into the /bin dir and check to see which shells you have access to..

[The Mad One]

it doesnt look like i have direct access to the bin directory

also heres some things that might help

[WeOwn@oracle (~)]$ echo $SHELL
/usr/local/bin/bash

[WeOwn@oracle (~)]$ whereis sh
sh: /bin/sh /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz

i dont know what else to do

[ppslim]

have you tried

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

[RedAlert]

upload your script using ASCII mode with ftp from windows, not BINARY mode.

or run dos2unix on it after uploading.

that will fix all the weird errors.

note that both "cd ~/" commands in the script are unnecessary

[mihaileonte]

upload your script using ASCII mode with ftp from windows, not BINARY mode.

or run dos2unix on it after uploading.

that will fix all the weird errors.

note that both "cd ~/" commands in the script are unnecessary

it will not fix weird errors, it will only relpace ODh OAh with 0Ah only because dos has 2 chars for eoln and unix only 1

[RedAlert]

Please, get a clue before telling me I'm wrong. Thank you.

[caesar]

Write your bash codes in linux not in windows cos it's lame and he is screwing stuff.