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Anon_unique
Anon_unique

Reputation: 45

Errors running script under Git Bash

I have a simple bash shell script I'm running under Git Bash in Windows 10. If I include the usual first line:

#!/bin/bash

I get the error:

bash: #!/bin/bash: No such file or directory

If I omit that line, I get the error:

bash: $'\357\273\277': command not found

I found some commentary online that $'\357\273\277' is a byte-order mark but I don't know what to do with that information. How can I correct this?

Edit: I realize there is no /bin/bash in a Windows file system, but is there an equivalent that should be used for Git Bash?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1156

Answers (3)

g_bor
g_bor

Reputation: 1092

The text editor saved the file with a BOM that is causing an error. In most editors you find a setting to exclude the byte order mark on save. For instructions on how to do that on Visual Studio, see: UTF-8 without BOM

Upvotes: 2

Ankush Sahu
Ankush Sahu

Reputation: 628

seems like bash is not located in directory you are importing from, make sure you bash is installed in /bin directory only or you can search it by 

locate bash

it will give you exact location of bash and you can use that

example:- if you bash located in /tmp/bash then you can import it like

#!/tmp/bash

or you can check if bash is even installed or not using 

cat /etc/shells

Upvotes: 0

Dean
Dean

Reputation: 939

Try this for your first line in your script:

#!/usr/bin/bash

I also have Git Bash installed under Windows and when I did a "which bash" I got "/usr/bin/bash".

Upvotes: 0

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