Re: Can't execute file

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-May-2009, Carlo de Falco wrote:

| On 14 May 2009, at 16:34, William Miner wrote:
| 
| > dsl017-068-210:Octave williamminer$ cat hello
| > #! octave -qf
| > # A sample Octave program
| > printf ("Hello, world!\n");
| 
| I think you have to specify the full path to the Octave executable or  
| write the shebang line as:
| 
| $ cat hello.m
| #! /usr/bin/env octave -qf
| printf("hello, world!")

This does not work on my system, because whatever it is that is
processing the #! line (the kernel?) passes "octave -qf" as a single
argument /usr/bin/env, and "octave -qf" does not exist.

jwe