tcl/tk: #!/usr/bin/wish in a script file does not start wish

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tcl/tk: #!/usr/bin/wish in a script file does not start wish

When executing a tcl/tk script file, 'wish' does not execute the tcl/tk commands in the file.
Instead I get error messages: "command not found" from tcsh for every tcl/tk command in the file. I use tcsh as login shell.
The first line in the script file is: #!/usr/bin/wish. The program is at this place.
Starting 'wish' with my tcl/tk file as argument works fine.
Starting the wish.app and "sourcing" the script file works fine.

jo

iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 1, 2005 4:04 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 1, 2005 6:06 AM in response to Jokern

Did you perhaps save this script file with incorrect newline characters?

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Dec 1, 2005 6:32 AM in response to Daniel Macks

Thinking the same a I used a second editor (vi) and pressed 'a' and RETURN key to create a new line. To no avail.
Also other interpreters get started fine.

Jo

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Dec 1, 2005 9:13 AM in response to Jokern

Weird. I just created a simple file with the appropriate #! line for my machine, and it worked correctly. Could you post your script somewhere? Maybe zip the file so that any weird characters are preserved exactly as you have them...

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Dec 1, 2005 10:45 AM in response to Jokern

Permissions are correct?

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Dec 2, 2005 2:12 AM in response to James Hober

Thanks for the hints so far.

I posted the file at
www.jokern.de/led.tk.sit

I used Disk Utility to repair permissions on my disk.
I used bash shell to start the script.
I used "chmod" to play with permissions of the file.
I used sudo to execute the file.
Didn't help.

Again executing:

wish led.tk !works just fine
./led.tk !does not work

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Dec 2, 2005 7:23 AM in response to Jokern

That file looks correct, no weird characters. I adjusted the #! line to point to my wish, and ./led.tk worked fine. You say wish led.tk "works just fine"; does /usr/bin wish led.tk work also (i.e., make sure we're getting the exact same "wish" to run)?

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Dec 2, 2005 11:08 AM in response to Daniel Macks

Thanks for the help so far.

Using

/usr/bin/wish led.tk

works.

using

./led.tk

does not even start wish. I checked with Activity Monitor.

Below are my "wishes", the first one is actually a link to wish4.8.

ls /usr/bin/wi*

wish
wish8.4
wish8.4-X11
wish8.4.7
wish8.5

But I am one step closer.
Starting X11.app and starting my script in an xterm and using
'#!/usr/bin/wish8.4-X11'
in the script works.
Using
#!/usr/bin/wish8.4
has still the same symptoms. For me it looks like a bug. I wonder if anybody can verify on MacOS 10.4.3

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