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sleekmason
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    A line in one posts above shows “calling sh to exec a #!/bin/bash script”.
    You need to read/learn that’s ill-advised, and why so.
    Besides, on antiX, does your system even have an “sh” command???
    (check it: IIRC, “sh” and “ash” are symlinks to “dash”, which you’ll usually not want to use instead of bash)

    This is why more people with knowledge like yours should step up instead of letting people flounder, or allow info to spread that shouldn’t. .sh on the end of half the files indicate a usable command. If #!/bin/bash is used at the top of the script, does it not call bash anyway? just wondering. Sounds like I have some cleanup changes to do. Thank you.
    QuiteRSS <— http://quiterss.org/ Appreciate this;)

    @BobC
    ### These are the commands I use to make a directory in home to be read by bash. Maybe useful.
    $ mkdir -p “$HOME/bin”
    $ echo ‘PATH=”$HOME/bin:$PATH”‘ >> “$HOME/.bashrc”
    $ source “$HOME/.bashrc”
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    No, I’m not upset. Nobody is interested in my idea anyway

    –
    Obviously people are. There are probably 20 (2000?) or so keeping track of this thread whether you know it or not. I frequently get none to one replies on the stuff I write. Putting yourself out there for ridicule isn’t easy.