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To   : Barry Blackford
From : Thomas W. Mueller
Date : Wed Oct 10 2001 01:04 pm

Hello Barry.

10 Oct 01 14:04, you wrote to me:

 BB>>> cp index.html index.rotate
 BB>>> cp index1.html index.html
 BB>>> cp index2.html index1.html
 BB>>> cp index3.html index2.html
 BB>>> cp index.rotate index3.html
 TM>> This looks allright to me. Have you maybe forgotten to add a
 TM>> #!/bin/sh  at the top?
 BB> it returns:
 BB> <path to my executed file> ./htmlrename <exected script name>
 BB> ) is not a directory files, but last argument (
 BB> Try `cp --help' for more information

 BB> The really strange thing is that I can manually run each line of that
 BB> script manually (with no problems). I also tried #!/bin/bash with the
 BB> same results as above.
Another common problem are DOS style cr/lf line ends rather than Unix style lf. 
Did you maybe create the script with a DOS/Windows based editor?

Thomas

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