[X-Unix] BASH problem?

[Russell McGaha]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 7:28 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2004, at 12:47 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:
>
>> 	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
>
> Yeah, that's right assuming the script has execution permmissions and 
> is run as an executable. There any interpreter can be put, perl for 
> instance, it does not need to be a shell.
>
> Why do you set the -x flag for a nightly script BTW?

I put it there for debugging; and forgot to take it out. :)

>
>> ; 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?
>
> Does the script run under cron? Can you send the errors you get? Can 
> you send the very script?

Yes; via a applescript app wrapper at the moment, but I'm going to 
change that in a minute.  See my reply to Eugene for the errors.  I'll 
post the entire script if needed.

>
> -- fxn
>
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