Student Seeking Help

Hello everyone,
I am a college student who just installed Solaris 10 for the purposes of a UNIX/Java development environment, but I'm running into a few snags and would appreciate any help I can get. Currently, I'm having a few simple problems with running shell scripts. Most of the time, it will say in the terminal that the script file does not exist when it is visible in the working directory. Double-clicking it seems to fix this issue, but then the shell has issues dealing with simple statements like "function functionName", unable to comprehend what a function is.
So I have two questions.
1) How do I manage to run my shell script under the terminal?
2) How can I get it to recognize script functions?

Hi
Normally in UNIX the 'current directory' is not searched when executing an application. So you have two choices: either put your scripts somewhere that is searched, or add the current directory to your PATH. I'd recommend the former - e.g., make a bin directory in your home directory, put your scripts there and put ~/bin in your PATH. The latter option - putting . in your PATH is usually frowned upon, as it puts you at risk of trojans (not so much of a problem if no-one else uses the machine). E.g., someone puts a an app called 'ls' in /tmp that does some mischief and then runs /bin/ls filtering itself out.
Paul

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