Why does my bash script not work? (“command not found”)

Question

I wrote a very simple script that looks like that:

$ cat pack.sh
#!/bin/bash
cd log
rm development.log
cd ..
tar zcvf my_tar_ball.tar.gz *

But, it doesn't work:

$ pack.sh
pack.sh: command not found

which bash returns /bin/bash, and pack.sh is executable:

$ ls -ll pack.sh 
-rwxrwxr-x 1 misha misha 75 2012-02-04 22:11 pack.sh

What could be the problem?

(BTW, source pack.sh does work!)

Answer 1

If you did not put the scripts directory in your PATH(which is a environment variable), and . (the current directory) is not in the PATH either, you can activate the script like this:

$ ./pack.sh