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I am centos 5.4 user and I can't run shell script outside its directry i.e my script is located:

/me/script.sh

it will run as 

./script.sh

but not as 

/me/script.sh

it is 755 chmod, why its like that ?

cheers, /Marcin

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What is the error message you get when you run /me/script.sh ? – Iain♦ Oct 19 '10 at 12:16
nothing, just really does nothing – Marcin Oct 19 '10 at 12:23

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What error does it give you?

Did you write it to be run from anywhere, or inside it does it call programs by relative path such as 'program' instead of '/me/program' and it now cannot find them?

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its just echo program, really dummy stuff for testing purposes, then there is no dependencies at all – Marcin Oct 19 '10 at 12:15
OK, got it, as you said, I have realized that I am running something what requires proper path, anyway, all fixed. – Marcin Oct 19 '10 at 12:25
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Run your shell script as bash -x /me/script.sh and see what's going wrong. There's no overall technical reason a script can't work outside your directory, so it's got to be something you're running that expects $CWD to be /me.

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