On Saturday 16 April 2016 10:47:24 Aero Maxx wrote: > On 16/04/2016 14:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 01:22:09PM +0100, Aero Maxx wrote: > >> I have a number of bash scripts that work perfectly fine on fedora > >> 23, but do not work on debian 8. I've tried to sort it out myself, > >> but am a little stuck now hopefully someone is able to give me a > >> nudge in the right direction. > >> The output I get from the above script is > >> > >>> wordpress_beta.sh: 8: bashtest.sh: [[: not found > >>> wordpress_beta.sh: 8: bashtest.sh: web: not found > >>> wordpress_beta.sh: 8: bashtest.sh: web: not found > >>> > >>> Setting current directory to 'web' web public folder. > > > > The [[ is correct bash syntax. To try to pinpoint the problem, try > > running the script with "bash <script>". If you don't want to run > > the script but just to check syntax, you might want to try > > "bash -n <script>". > > > > If that works out OK, perhaps your script is still being invoked > > under dash? > > I tried that it works thank you, I mistaken assumed that because I > changed the shebang line to be bash instead of sh, > and then ran it using "sh <script>" it would work, but obviously I got > the same errors as before, and I wasn't aware that > there was one called bash also, but now I think of it that's quite > obvious. > > Anyway thank you to everyone that responded to my message! > FWIW, bash I believe, is the grey haired old man in the shell arena, I was using it way back in my amiga days as someone had apparently ported it to amigados 2 decades and change ago. We also had ksh and csh, but they didn't have the power of bash or ARexx. And I still miss ARexx. Even bash cannot do the intimate to the os things that ARexx could do.
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