problem double-clicking shell scripts

Dan Shoop shoop at iwiring.net
Tue May 22 13:29:10 PDT 2007


At 8:13 AM +0200 5/22/07, Donkergroen bvba wrote:
>I wrote a few shell scripts that do some stuff for me , that I keep 
>in the finder sidebar.
>All off a sudden clicking them no longer works. I get the popup : 
>"There is no default
>application specified to open the document "testScript"

are they named something like myscript.sh?

What application is defined for that type of file? (That will be the 
answer to your question.)

>The script also lost its icon in the finder.

Prolly for the same reason.

>All commands in /usr/bin also lost this icon. ( except for links in /usr/bin )
>This is the same for another user.

I'd expect this, yes, based on what you've described.

>The only thing I have been doing is installing some software with 
>the darwin port command.
>
>I have no idea how to fix this. ( googling didn't help )

give them a useful extension (rather than none, or whatever it is 
which has obviously been reset) and define it?
-- 

-dhan

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