[Jprogramming] Example bash shell scripts using J 7.01

[David Ward Lambert]

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 06:18 +0800, programming-request at jsoftware.com
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> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:22:09 +1300
> From: Ric Sherlock <tikkanz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Example bash shell scripts using J 7.01
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> Not sure if you after bash scripts that run J or hashbang scripts?
> 
> I've only recently started working mostly in Linux and with bash.
> Here is an example of a hashbang script that I've created recently -
> There are probably better ways to handle errors, I'd be interested in
> alternative approaches and any other tips & tricks too.  Note that jc
> is an alias to jconsole and that I've changed the default install path
> from j64-701 to j64_701 in order to prevent J errors while executing
> 
> 

Oh-_-_-I seem to have trouble distinguishing _ from - .  I get it now.
In this context jc is most likely a link, not an alias.  Alias has a
different meaning in bash.  As for my post, "bigger hammer" exec is the
same hammer except that the first line of script needn't be
#! /path/program