I'm still missing something.....
Two identical files: merge and merge4; both executable by the world.
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$ ./merge or $ ./merge4
cannot find the file
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$ merge
apparently locates the file -- but cannot run it
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-rw------- 1 kelly kelly 3062 Dec 3 11:57 logfile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kelly kelly 135 Dec 3 13:24 merge
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kelly kelly 135 Dec 3 10:54 merge4
drwx------ 2 kelly kelly 4096 Dec 2 04:31 pg_clog
-rw------- 1 kelly kelly 10168 Dec 2 04:31 pg_hba.conf
-rw------- 1 kelly kelly 1250 Dec 2 04:31 pg_ident.conf
-rw------- 1 kelly kelly 4 Dec 2 04:31 PG_VERSION
drwx------ 2 kelly kelly 4096 Dec 2 04:31 pg_xlog
-rw------- 1 kelly kelly 3848 Dec 2 04:31 postgresql.conf
-rw------- 1 kelly kelly 20 Dec 3 10:51 postmaster.opts
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[kelly@localhost pg]$ ./merge
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[kelly@localhost pg]$ ./merge4
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
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[kelly@localhost pg]$ merge
merge: not enough arguments
merge: usage: merge [-AeEpqxX3] [-L lab [-L lab [-L lab]]] file1 file2 file3
merge aborted
[kelly@localhost pg]$
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Thanks,
Warren
>
>You *must* run your script this way:
>$ ./merge4
>
>And you did make sure that the script is executable, right?
>
> > ------------------------------------
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > for f in `ls /home/kelly/message/*`
> > do
> > psql -d pg -c "INSERT INTO mail (message)
> > VALUES ('`cat $f`')"
> > done
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > [kelly@localhost pg]$ merge
> > merge: not enough arguments
> > merge: usage: merge [-AeEpqxX3] [-L lab [-L lab [-L lab]]] file1 file2
>file3
> > merge aborted
> > --------------------------------------
> > [kelly@localhost pg]$ merge4
> > bash: merge4: command not found
> > --------------------------------------
> > >
> > >On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:48, Warren Massengill wrote:
> > > > My database is pg, the table is mail.
> > > > The small text files are in /home/kelly/message/.
> > > > The bash shell script is merge.
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