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From: avolio@decuac.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does this shell program run under csh????
Message-ID: <1343@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 09:12:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: decuac.1343
Posted: Tue Jun  2 09:12:33 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jun-87 02:22:27 EDT
References: <243@kosman.UUCP>
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In article <243@kosman.UUCP>, kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
> I am running Ultrix 1.2A (a Berkely type thing) and have written two shell
> programs:
> 	/etc/daily
> 	/etc/monthly
> for backup purposes.  The odd thing is that they are almost identical, the
> exceptions being one argument to dump(8) and some commentary.  ...
                                                    !!!!!!!!!!

One starts right in with the shell commands and the other starts with
a comment beginning with a '#', right?  Any shell script that the C
Shell sees that begins with a comment it assumes should run with the
/bin/csh, else it runs /bin/sh on it.  Begin both scripts (assuming
that they are written for Bourne Shell) with the line:

#! /bin/sh

Just a side note... based on your other postings recently I think that
you might benefit from a DECstart Ultrix service at your site.  This
is not a put-down, please believe me.  It just might be worth it to
have someone come down and go through all of this with you for a day.
Call your DEC sales rep or drop me a note if you do not know him|her.

Fred