Running .sh from main menu

[red-e-made]

I've Googled around quite a bit on this, so just to let you know beforehand: chmod +x /file.sh changes nothing, nor does "sh /file.sh" nor "bash /file.sh"

With that out of the way ...

I'm trying to put a new item on my menu, the executable of which is an .sh file. The files works perfectly well if I navigate to it and click it - it asks if I want to run or display it - but when I add the .sh to the menu, nothing happens.

Stranger still, when I run "sh /file.sh" in the terminal, this works perfectly well. The same command in the menu does nothing.

Thoughts?

[shane]

At the beginning of your script your should have

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#!/bin/bash

And then instead of

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sh /path/to/script.sh

just have

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/path/to/script.sh

This might solve it...

P.S. Is this script supposed to run in a terminal? Then it would be different...

[red-e-made]

At the beginning of your script your should have

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#!/bin/bash

And then instead of

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sh /path/to/script.sh

just have

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/path/to/script.sh

This might solve it...

P.S. Is this script supposed to run in a terminal? Then it would be different...

Strangely, the beginning of the script is actually "#!/bin/sh"

[shane]

I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes... There are some tiny differences between sh and bash. In Mint the default shell is bash which is why my scripts start like that. Did you try running the script directly in the menu without 'sh'? That first line defines what kind of script it is and it should run automatically... just like when you double click.

[emorrp1]

my /bin/sh is currently symlinked to /bin/dash (no idea why), but I think it might be to /bin/bash on a fresh install. In other words, if that is the case, it makes absolutely zero difference which line goes at the top of file

[red-e-made]

I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes... There are some tiny differences between sh and bash. In Mint the default shell is bash which is why my scripts start like that. Did you try running the script directly in the menu without 'sh'? That first line defines what kind of script it is and it should run automatically... just like when you double click.

Running it directly - using just the directory path - yields nothing.

I'm stumped, personally.