[Remind-Fans] Using RUN echo etc.

"K.André Braselmann" listen at brainworx.it
Tue Oct 31 03:20:58 EST 2006


Shelagh Manton wrote:
> I'm trying to use RUN like this.
> 
> REM 31 Oct 2006 AT 17:33 RUN echo "Diane here at 10am" \
> | osd_cat -pmiddle -Acenter -d30 \
> -f-*-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> The echo command works fine with the osd_cat program fine on the command
> line, but when I use it with remind it says
> 
> sh: /bin/echo: No such file or directory
> sh: : command not found
> sh: /bin/echo: No such file or directory
> 
> and 
> 
> sh: echo: command not found
> sh: : command not found
> sh: echo: command not found
>  when I just use echo without a full path. I'm using the ubuntu package
> on Dapper if that makes a difference. Have I missed something?
> 

You are using the Posix Bourne Shell. So a

# which echo

should show the correct path to the echo command.
Or is it a rights problem? Usually not.

hopeithelps

Andre






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