Running .sh problems?

[armistice90]

Hello everyone,

I'm attempting to run a .sh file, but I'm encountering issues. I've already changed its permissions to allow execution, but when I double click the icon, no window asking if I would like to run the script appears. I ran this file just fine on every version of Ubuntu 12 I used. but I'm having issues now that I've switched to Ubuntu 13. Any advice?

[prodigy_]

I've already changed its permissions to allow execution, but when I double click the icon, no window asking if I would like to run the script appears.

If a file is marked executable, it's executed silently. Why would you need a confirmation dialog anyway?

[Locus Kiesselbachi]

hehe ...hello!

Try through terminal Ctrl+T!

You need to install korn shell program-thingy.

sudo apt-get install ksh

then open your executable file.

sh "filename"

or

sudo sh "filename"

or

sudo ksh "filename"

[prodigy_]

or

More like not. ;) A .sh file is very likely a bash script which, depending on what's inside, may be incompatible with sh/ksh.

[Locus Kiesselbachi]

Well, sometimes it helped me trying to get .sh thingy running.

[armistice90]

I suppose I didn't clarify too well. I'll click, and it opens with gedit instead of prompting if I want to run the file. I've always recieved a prompt in the past when using 12

[deadflowr]

What's the intended result of the script?

[armistice90]

It's supposed to run a visual novel.

[deadflowr]

Is it a long script?

Maybe in it's somewhat short, like a page or so, you could post it and we could review what's at fault.

If you choose to, please use the code tags from the reply box toolbar (# symbol)

[armistice90]

Sure thing. It's rather short, so here it is.

#!/bin/sh

# We assume Darwin means Mac OS X. Sorry, Darwin guys.
if [ "x`uname -s`" = "xDarwin" ]; then
    dir=`dirname "$0"`
    dir=`cd "$dir"; pwd`
    base=`basename "$0"`

    export RENPY_LAUNCHER_DIR="$dir"

    if [ -e "$dir/${base%.sh}.app/Contents/MacOS/${base%.sh}" ] ; then
        launcher="$dir/${base%.sh}.app/Contents/MacOS/${base%.sh}"
    else
        launcher="$dir/${base%.sh}.app/Contents/MacOS/Ren'Py Launcher"
    fi

    exec "$launcher" "${0%.sh}.py" "$@"
fi

exec "`dirname \"$0\"`/lib/python" "-OO" "${0%.sh}.py" "$@"