what does bash mean

[newblank25]

I tried to use the terminal to get a program I downloade to work. I thought that if I TYPED java-jar/home/directoryname/java-jar programname & then terminal said bash. what did I do wrong?

[grahammechanical]

I do not know what you did wrong but BASH = Bourne Again SHell. It is a replacement for the Bourne Shell. In other words it is a command line interpreter = the terminal and the commands that run or execute in the terminal. The commands can also be written in text files called scripts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Be.../BashScripting

My guess is that you were running a script that ended without doing much.

Regards.

[Iowan]

It might be a bit easier (for some of us dense folks) if you could copy/paste a sample of what you're typing and seeing for results.

[Bashing-om]

newblank25; Hi !

See all the aboves: Me too slow (??).

A path - to the file to be executed - is required. In your example:
"/home/newblank25/directoryname/programname"
Where "programname" is located in the subdirectory "directoryname" in another subdirectory "newblank25" that may be 1 of several directories located under the top directory "home" that is under the topmost of all files "/".
For example:

sysop@1310mini:~$ ls -la /home/sysop/Downloads/shutdown.man.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sysop sysop 3194 Jul 28  2013 /home/sysop/Downloads/shutdown.man.txt
sysop@1310mini:~$

where "shutdown.man.txt" might be an executable file.

Else: as I can be real dense-> copy and paste back to us what you are actually doing.

Ain't it great

free education !

[nothingspecial]

bash will tell you if you did it wrong but it won't tell you if you did it right (unless you tell it to do so)

So if you literally type

java-jar/home/directoryname/java-jar programname

Then bash will say

bash: java-jar/home/directoryname/java-jar: No such file or directory

Which is like saying "This is bash speaking: I can't find what you are asking for"

[deadflowr]

Did it say
bash: java-jar/home/directoryname/java-jar: No such file or directory
?

Is java-jar a program?
Maybe needs a space.
Two seconds search shows a proper command for java -jar
http://askubuntu.com/questions/10174...m-the-terminal

[newblank25]

$ java-jar/home/michael/game/fibs/JavaFIBS2001/JavaFIBS-1.0.12_java16.jar
bash: java-jar/home/michael/game/fibs/JavaFIBS2001/JavaFIBS-1.0.12_java16.jar: No such file or directory
this is what i tried?

[ubudog]

$ java-jar/home/michael/game/fibs/JavaFIBS2001/JavaFIBS-1.0.12_java16.jar
bash: java-jar/home/michael/game/fibs/JavaFIBS2001/JavaFIBS-1.0.12_java16.jar: No such file or directory
this is what i tried?

Hi,

I believe the command you are looking for is:

java -jar /home/michael/game/fibs/JavaFIBS2001/JavaFIBS-1.0.12_java16.jar

"-jar" is a paramater of the java command, used to specify that you wish to run a jar file.

[newblank25]

i cut & pasted it & this happened. michael@michael-ubuntu:~$ java -jar /home/michael/game/fibs/JavaFIBS2001/JavaFIBS-1.0.12_java16.jarError: Unable to access jarfile /home/michael/game/fibs/JavaFIBS2001/JavaFIBS-1.0.12_java16.jar

[ubudog]

Do you know where your .jar is that you want to run?