No script output to stdout,stderr

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18:51 21 Feb 2005, Brendan Gibson <Brendan.Gibson at bds.tv> wrote:
| I am using a new installation of Red Hat Enterprise 4.  I have a problem
| in that when I run a script from the command line I do not get any
| output.
| 
| I have tried a shell script and a perl script, listed below:
| 
| shcheckout.sh:
| 
| #!/bin/sh
| echo "Shhhh...."
| 
| 
| checkout.pl
| 
| #!/usr/bin/perl -w
| use strict;
| print "I am a perl script\n";
| 
| I can run the scripts like
| 
| $ sh shcheckout.sh
| Shhhh....
| 
| AND
| 
| $ perl checkout.pl
| I am a perl script
| 
| However running them as
| 
| ./shcheckout.sh 
| AND
| ./checkout.pl
| 
| produce no output, but redirecting the output to a file works OK.
| 
| Does anyone know what's going on, and how to fix it?

No, I don't know what's going on. It is not normal at all.
Do other commands produce output in that shell?
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