[X-Unix] BASH problem?

Russell McGaha RussellMcGaha at mac.com
Tue Dec 7 16:28:22 PST 2004


[18:27:17 Tue Dec 07] [localhost:~] russellm$/exec(/bin/tcsh);source 
MozScript1d.txt;
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `/bin/tcsh'

On Dec 7, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Steffen Lund Hokland wrote:

> what happens if you start out with.
> exec(/bin/tcsh)
> ?
>
> steffen
>
> On 7/12-2004, at 12.47, Russell McGaha wrote:
>
>> Folks;
>> 	In an effort to start learning Bash I change my shell from Tcsh to 
>> Bash, but that's caused a problem.  I've a script that runs nightly 
>> to pull and build Mozilla, the script is a Tcsh script with a first 
>> line of "#!/bin/tcsh -x".  Now I THOUGHT, that line told the 'system' 
>> to run that script under Tcsh; but with my shell set to Bash, I get 
>> all kinds of Bash errors on the first lines of the script and the 
>> script doesn't run.  I've tried running "do script with command 
>> "/bin/tcsh;source MozScript1d.txt;" " from an AppleScript to invoke 
>> Tsch first, and then run the script; but all though Tsch gets invoked 
>> my scripts doesn't.
>> 	Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how I can correct this?
>>
>> TIA
>> Russell
>>
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