I can't execute shell scripts anymore

mean_booty · 2017-11-03 21:47:10

I'm not sure when this ocurred, but I recently dowloaded the witcher 2. It was simply a shell script that I had to execute, but when I tried it I got this:

[mean_booty@[excluded] Downloads]$ sudo ./gog_the_witcher_2_assassins_of_kings_enhanced_edition_2.2.0.8.sh 
[sudo] password for mean_booty: 
sudo: ./gog_the_witcher_2_assassins_of_kings_enhanced_edition_2.2.0.8.sh: command not found

It seems to not know how to execute shell scripts. I tested it with a hello world simple shell script and the same thing happened:

[mean_booty@[excluded] Downloads]$ sudo ./hello_world.sh
sudo: ./hello_world.sh: command not found

I think it may be an issue with my paths because typing

bash hello_world.sh

works perfectly.

This is my path output:

[mean_booty@[excluded] ~]$ $PATH
bash: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl: No such file or directory

Is there a way to "reset" my paths or anything? Is there something on there that shouldn't be or vice versa?

Thanks

Last edited by mean_booty (2017-11-04 17:51:33)

circleface · 2017-11-03 22:08:33

Why are you running the commands with sudo? I think the problem is the relative paths, which would obviously be different for the root user.

loqs · 2017-11-03 22:30:00

@circleface

$ cat ./hello_world.sh 
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo 'hello world'
$ sudo ./hello_world.sh 
hello world

circleface · 2017-11-03 22:41:15

Thanks loqs, I always thought that wouldn't work, but I guess it does

Last edited by circleface (2017-11-03 22:41:28)

2ManyDogs · 2017-11-04 00:00:58

I don't think this is a path problem. Please post the output of the following command (in that Downloads directory)

ls -l *.sh

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2017-11-04 00:01:47)

mean_booty · 2017-11-04 17:55:10

[mean_booty@[excluded] Downloads]$ ls -l *.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mean_booty mean_booty 21185760060 Oct 20 16:45 gog_the_witcher_2_assassins_of_kings_enhanced_edition_2.2.0.8.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mean_booty mean_booty          81 Nov  3 16:40 hello_world.sh

I just have those two scripts.
If I try to run any shell script not in sudo, it says "permission denied" so that's why I ran these in sudo.

Wouldn't it be either a paths or permissions problem since bash works on its own, but the execution alias doesn't work?

Scimmia · 2017-11-04 17:56:37

You're trying to execute them, they need execute permissions.

glyons · 2017-11-04 19:36:53

This command will give execute permission for the user that owns the file to your all your scripts in that folder.

$ chmod u+x *.sh

see here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … attributes

eschwartz · 2017-11-05 02:34:42

Typing

bash hello_world.sh

is NOT an equivalent test to

sudo ./hello_world.sh

The latter is not *just* running with sudo, it is also executing the script directly versus running the bash program with a script file... how do you possibly expect to execute a non-executable file???

mean_booty wrote:

[mean_booty@[excluded] Downloads]$ ls -l *.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mean_booty mean_booty 21185760060 Oct 20 16:45 gog_the_witcher_2_assassins_of_kings_enhanced_edition_2.2.0.8.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mean_booty mean_booty          81 Nov  3 16:40 hello_world.sh
I just have those two scripts.
If I try to run any shell script not in sudo, it says "permission denied" so that's why I ran these in sudo.
Wouldn't it be either a paths or permissions problem since bash works on its own, but the execution alias doesn't work?

No you didn't, you ran an entirely different command in sudo. Also, never run a command with sudo just because you get permission denied. First ask yourself what the command is doing, and why you think sudo might help.

The number 1 cause of people having issues, is because they tried to run a command with sudo without knowing why.

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I can't execute shell scripts anymore

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