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Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved]

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  Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved] Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-04-22 14:21 +0200

#70503 — Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved]

On 22-04-14 14:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Antoon Pardon
> <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>> However if I call the script directly and want the #! line do its work I get the following error.
>>
>> # /usr/local/bin/ldapwatch /opt/local/log/openldap.log | head
>> /usr/local/bin/ldapwatch: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>> /usr/local/bin/ldapwatch: line 3: `class vslice(object):'
> That looks like bash trying to run Python code, so I'd look at
> something being wrong with the shebang processing. What's
> /opt/local/bin/python? Is it a symlink to something else? Some systems
> won't allow any such dereferencing, others (including modern Linux)
> allow a maximum of ten or thereabouts, counting one for every symlink
> or shebang'd script. If /opt/local/bin/python is a bouncer script that
> itself has a shebang, that might be your problem.
>
> ChrisA

Yes that was it. I changed the first line of my script to:

#!/opt/local/bin/python2.7

and it now works.

Thanks.
-- 
Antoon Pardon

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