From: Todd Sterben Date: 2013-06-28T10:55:34+09:00 Subject: Re: #!/usr/bin/env: No such file or directory Thanks for the responses. I should have been a bit more clear about my UNIX skills. Not great, but I can move around and set permissions and look at things like environment variables. So I had already set things to execute. I still can't see what is up. Here is the code(again) and files and symbolic links & path & permissions Here is my beautiful code: #!/usr/bin ruby puts "Hello world!" which produces these errors: ./test.rb: line 1: #!/usr/bin: No such file or directory ./test.rb: line 3: puts: command not found /usr/bin is in PATH so it should not have a problem there: /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm: /usr/local/sbin: /usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin: /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin: /usr/games: /usr/bin/ruby ruby points, through symbolic links, to /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 20 16:30 ruby -> /etc/alternatives/ruby lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 20 16:30 ruby -> /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5552 Mar 22 12:14 ruby1.9.1 And the code is here: -rwxrwxrwx 1 john john 41 Jun 27 18:41 test.rb I am going to /home/john to run the file ./test.rb And everything is executable -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.