Bad interpreter...

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Aug-2003, Mike <address@hidden> wrote:

| I have done the following:
| I saved as hello.sh the file
| #!octave-2.1.50 -qf
|   printf("Hello,world!\n"); and returning to the turminal I do
|   chmod  +744 hello.sh then trying to run the script with

Why rw but not x for group and others?

|  a) ./hello.sh -->bad interpreter,permission denied

You need the full name of the interpreter (octave):

  #! /usr/bin/octave

or whatever it actually is (perhaps /usr/local/bin/octave).

jwe



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