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Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

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John L. Ries              |
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On 11/4/16 6:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Today I've been having weird problems executing scripts.
> As I have no valuable data on the partition containing Debian, I wiped
> it and did a fresh install of Debian Jessie (8.6.0) MATE desktop
> environment from a purchased set of DVDs. Earlier today I had had
> reason to create an *,iso of DVD1 of 13 using xorriso. The ISO had a
> MD5SUM matching the one at debian.org .
>
> More than a half-century of trouble shooting *screams* 'operator
> error' ;[
> But what????? [Caja reports the execute bit is set ;]
>
> Cut-n-paste from MATE terminal:
> root@full-jessier:~# #!/bin/bash -x
> root@full-jessier:~# cd /media/root/myrepo
> root@full-jessier:/media/root/myrepo# RCO
> bash: RCO: command not found
> root@full-jessier:/media/root/myrepo# ls
> lost+found  new file  RCO  x2  xtract2 (copy)
> root@full-jessier:/media/root/myrepo#
>
>
> The content of RCO [with Linux line endings] is:
>
> F='dvd8_'
> N=0
> E='.iso'
> echo ""
> while true
>   do
>     read -p "press Enter (Ctrl+C to exit)" dummyvar
>     let N=N+1
>     FILENAME=$F$N$E
>     echo $FILENAME
>     echo ""
>     echo "*********************"
>  done
>
>
> Assistance appreciated.
>
>
>

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Trivial script will NOT execute Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-05 02:00 +0100
  Re: Trivial script will NOT execute "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-11-05 02:10 +0100
    Re: Trivial script will NOT execute Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-05 02:40 +0100
      Re: Trivial script will NOT execute "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-11-05 04:30 +0100
      Re: Trivial script will NOT execute David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-05 16:50 +0100
        Re: Trivial script will NOT execute Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 14:00 +0100
          Re: Trivial script will NOT execute David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 14:50 +0100
  Re: Trivial script will NOT execute Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-11-05 02:20 +0100
    Re: Trivial script will NOT execute Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-11-05 04:00 +0100
  Re: Trivial script will NOT execute sunrise@mailbug.com - 2016-11-05 02:40 +0100

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