problem executing python scripts in cygwin bash shell

[David Humphrey]

Thanks to all who responded.  There are some good ideas here that jarred me
back into the UNIX world where nearly anything is possible if you just think
about it a bit.

Regards,
DLH


"David Humphrey" <dhumphrey at pdqdot.net> wrote in message
news:69AD80E50414598C.875157435733CF34.B50964BA627F4825 at lp.airnews.net...
> I'm sure this one has been answered before, but I couldn't find the
solution
> in any of the newgroups, so here goes again.
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> I can run bash scripts that are in the path but not python scripts.  Each
> script has the appropriate (I think) #! declaration on the first line.
> Here's a short record of my tests:
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> $ pwd
> /home/administrator
>
> $ echo $PATH
>
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/c
>
ygdrive/c/BGIUtils:/cygdrive/d/Utils/Python20/:/cygdrive/d/Utils/ULTRAE~1:/c
> ygdrive/d/Utils/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/d/dlh/bin:.
>
> $ ls -al /usr/local/bin
> total 1
> drwxr-xr-x   2 administ None            0 Jan 10 16:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x   5 administ None            0 Jan 10 16:01 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None           59 Apr  5 11:35 test.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None           77 Apr  5 11:34 test1.py
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None           92 Apr  5 11:39 test2.py
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/test.sh
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> echo "Hello, World (from the bash script)"
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/test1.py
> #!d:/Utils/python20/python.exe
> print "Hello, World (from the python script)"
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/test2.py
> #!/cygdrive/d/Utils/python20/python.exe
> print "Hello, World (from the python test2 script)"
>
> $ test.sh
> Hello, World (from the bash script)
>
> $ test1.py
> d:\Utils\python20\python.exe: can't open file '/usr/local/bin/test1.py'
>
> $ test2.py
> d:\Utils\python20\python.exe: can't open file '/usr/local/bin/test2.py'
>
> $
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> From this, I infer that cygwin bash understands the #! notation properly,
so
> I must have a problem with paths or some other configuration parameter.
> Also, I've run these same tests with c:\ instead of /cygdrive/c and d:\
> instead of /cygdrive/d.
>
> Has someone out there been successful doing this?
>
> Configuration details:
>
> Windows NT 4.0
> GNU bash, version 2.04.5(12)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> ActiveState Python 2.0.3
>
> Regards,
> David L. Humphrey
> Manager, Software Development
> Bell Geospace, Inc
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