Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!usfvax2!ssi From: ssi@usfvax2.EDU (Ssi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Comments Problem Keywords: Bourne Shell UNIX Problem Message-ID: <1133@usfvax2.EDU> Date: 23 Sep 88 02:13:53 GMT References: <292@dsacng1.UUCP> Reply-To: ssi@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP (Ssi) Organization: University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Lines: 12 >> The fist character on the first line of a shell script is '#' >> My Bourne Shell script does not run right. The problem is just that. Placing a '#' there means you want to run the script in the csh shell. read is not a csh command. The rest of what's in your script probably isn't either. I think you can start your script with : #!/bin/sh and it will run as you would think. Or you can put a dummy command on line 1. Greg Ripp Ph (813)628-6100