[maemo-developers] (update2) Is array implemented in bash ...?

[From: Frank Banul]

It looks like you have a DOS style file with carriage return/line
feeds at the end where bash is only expecting line feeds.

Run dos2unix on array1.sh

Frank

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Darius Jack <dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> Thanks.
> Open terminal
> bash  enter
> bash-3.2$
>
> file starts with #!/bin/bash
>
> array1.sh      (bash: array1.sh: command not found
> ./array1.sh     (bash: ./array1.sh: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or "direy"
> bash ./array1.sh
> runs shell script under ash
> interpreting array operations as command not found
>
> Should I really remove ash ?
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> --- On Fri, 27/6/08, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
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>> From: Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>
>> Subject: Re: (update2) Is array implemented in bash ...?
>> To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>> Date: Friday, 27 June, 2008, 9:09 PM
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 07:06:32PM +0000, Darius Jack wrote:
>> > update2
>> >
>> > (I do hope you don't get it htmlized, as Rich Text
>> is disabled)
>> >
>> > Installed bash, run bash in busybox
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand what you mean "run bash
>> in busybox".  Did you
>> mean scratchbox?
>>
>> > code works fine from terminal
>> > unfortunately
>> > trying to run shell file, file.sh
>>
>> How exactly are you running it?
>>
>>   $ ./file.sh
>>
>> should work if file starts with #!/bin/bash
>>
>>   $ bash file.sh
>>
>> should work always, and
>>
>>   $ sh file.sh
>>
>> will use ash to run file.sh.
>>
>> > it is still run by ash shell (not removed yet, as some
>> claimed it may
>> > crash a system)
>> >
>> > so arrays don't work
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> > doesn't work
>>
>> Could you be more specific?  Do you get a "No such
>> file" error, or do
>> you get errors you usually see when file.sh is executed by
>> ash?
>>
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