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From: lynnand@wombat.austin.ibm.com (M. Lynn Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: bug in nohup?
Keywords: nohup, ksh, sh, ~
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Date: 5 Jun 91 19:27:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun04.172858.4736@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
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> My login shell is /bin/ksh. If I run 'haha' directly, everything is normal.
> But I have problem run haha with 'nohup' command. The nohup.out gives right
> answer for $SHELL, and $HOME but it says:
> 
> ~: No such file or directory
> 
> then went ahead listed the files in /tmp. 
> 
> What is the problem?
> 
> By the way, the script works fine if I put a #!/bin/ksh at the very
beginning.
> 
> ---
>   Guangliang He
>   ghe@physics.orst.edu

The default shell script execution is /bin/sh.
This is a link to /bin/bsh becuase there are so many scripts 
out there that assume /bin/sh is the bourne shell.
The best answer is to include #!/bin/ksh in your script.

M. Lynn Anderson 

lynnand@wombat.austin.ibm.com 

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