[NTLUG:Discuss] what is ":bad option"?

[m m]

Someone told me here (sorry I deleted the mail)
If I am using bash, the it should be:
#! /bin/bash
yes, I use RH 6.2 default, which is bash (I guess, maybe wrong), but I check 
some script files, they are begin with
#!/bin/sh
I don't know what to say.

jc


>From: Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] what is ":bad option"?
>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:52:16 -0500
>
>m m wrote:
> >
> > >From: Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
> > >Can you send us the contents of the script file? (Assuming it's not
> > >too long that is!)
> > >
> > here is the script: (I just copy from Qmail-HOWTO) and name it as 
>'svscan'
> > and put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/
> >
> > #---------beginning of the script ---------------
>
>Do you literally have this line ("#-------beginning ...") at the
>start of your file?
>
>If so, that's the problem.  This line:
>
>       #!/bin/sh -e
>
>...has to be *exactly* the first thing in the file. No blank
>lines, no comments, not even a single space character may precede
>that '#!'.
>
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