how do you get a script to run

[Chris]

On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:37 pm, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Gregory Stearns wrote:
> > I know I am retarded, how ever I can not get the script I wrote to run
> > on Free BSD 4.7.
>
> 1) Make sure it has execute permissions set (man chmod)
>
> 2) Make sure it's in a directory specified in your PATH variable.
> Usually username/bin/ is a good place to put scripts. Alternatively, cd
> to the directory where the script is and do a
>    ./myscript.sh
>
> HTH.

Alternatively,  use the explicate path with the name of the script.
for example:

/usr/home/mayname/scripts/scriptname


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Best regards,
                 Chris
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