Execute Permissions and an Odd Experience

[Kent Borg]

Martin McCormick wrote:
> I have been working in Unix for 19 or 20 years and sometimes, I
> still run in to something that I don't quite understand.
>
> 	Last night, I mounted a USB stick formatted with FAT32
> and discovered that I could not execute executable files on the
> thumb drive which was mounted on /mnt. As soon as I copied the
> files to /root/, they all ran as expected.
>
> 	The executable files were a pair of bash shell scripts
> and the error for each one was 
>
> /bin/bash: bad interpreter
>
> followed by "permission denied" since /bin/bash didn't run.
>   

I would guess they were DOS line endings and your copy (drag icons?) Got 
Clever and converted them to Unix line endings.


-kb, the Kent who writes this at 400 miles an hour 36,000 feet over 
Colorado, listening to WHRB.