Execute .sh File
 

Hi,

I'm trying to run an app using these instructions:

Open the Apple Terminal (located at: /Applications/Utilities) and go with the command line to the location the start.sh file is located. Then execute sh start.sh

I have used cd to navigate to the directory start.sh is stored in and tried:

sh start.sh

I ended up with this error message:

-bash: sh: command not found

Does anyone know where I'm going wrong?

Thanks.

try ./start.sh. also, search the forum and look for Hayne's Unix FAQ, and read it. it will give you a much better grasp on the unix world.

I tried that and it gave me a permission denied error.

Will look at the faq you suggested and hopefully it will shed some light.

It sounds like you have modified your shell's execution PATH (see the shell config section of that FAQ) and made a mistake in doing so such that "/bin" is no longer in your PATH.
To confirm this, please show us the results of the following command:

echo $PATH

I get this...

alan-moores-macbook:~ alan$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin

Is start.sh executable?
Why not list it for us?

ls -le ./start.sh
file ./start.sh

... etc.

I'm not sure what you mean by this?

Hal means to go to the directory which contains start.sh, using a command similar to the one below, except with the actual path inplace of "/path/to/directory":

cd /path/to/directory

Then show us a directory listing of only the start.sh file:

ls -le ./start.sh

Then show us additional information about the file type of start.sh:

file ./start.sh

It might also be good to show us the script, assuming that it is a script:

cat ./start.sh

If the script is too long to nicely fit into this forum thread, you could alternately just show us the first few lines

head -n 20 ./start.sh

Trevor

thanks for the instructions. Will do this when I get home. In the mean time this is the application if that helps:

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Finance/OpenbravoPOS.shtml

You appear to have a typo here which is causing the problem; you want to have a colon between /bin and /sbin there (also, /usr/local/bin is there twice). Wherever that's being set (see the aforementioned Unix FAQ), you should instead have a path like

blb and hayne appear correct. [post #5 wasn't visible (or cached?) yet, when i posted #6.]

Problem is... we can't see where the problem is.
This might show us:

/usr/bin/grep -in -C1 path ~/.[bp]* /etc/{profile,bashrc}

Here is the result of that command:

I also used the Unix FAQ guide to edit .profile. This file was empty so I added this:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

However, when I try echo $PATH it still shows as the old path:

/usr/local/bin:/bin/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin

To edit the .profile I did this:

1. Edit your ~/.profile file.
vi ~/.profile

2. Change path to:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"

3. Save the file.
4. Quit the editor.
The change takes effect immediately.

5. Check it with
echo $PATH

Thanks!

If your .profile appears to be ignored, it's usually because you have a higher-priority dotfile which bash uses instead. Look for ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login and check to see if PATH is being set there. If so, correcting that missing colon will probably get things right.

thanks!!

Had a .bash_profile

Got rid of the line in that file which was setting the execution path and everything is good now. Got the app up and running.
:)

one more question. Is it possible to create a shortcut icon on my desktop which would launch terminal and execute start.sh?

Rather than having to do this normally?

Edit: figured it out. Used applescript and this code:

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "cd /applications/openbravopos"
do script "sh start.sh" in window 1
end tell

Well... there are many ways around the [original] problem.
However, the actual *source* of this error appears to be inside /etc/profile...

Which OS version are you running anyway?
From the looks of things, my guess is 10.4.x.
Here is a proper /etc/profile for (a stock) Tiger:

EDIT: you probably should fix that. [there's no telling what else (other than your own shell environment) may depend on it.]

I'm running snow leopard.

That's a mighty ancient-looking (not to mention funky) profile.

Let's see the whole thing with...

cat /etc/profile

May as well list it too...

ls -l /etc/profile

alan-moores-macbook:~ alan$ cat /etc/profile
# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

PATH="/bin/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
export PATH

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi


alan-moores-macbook:~ alan$ ls -l /etc/profile
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 172 Feb 20 2009 /etc/profile

That's pretty strange... because it looks like a mangled Tiger profile. I don't have Snowy yet... but in Leopard, Apple went with the path_helper script to build the $PATH variable:
[maybe Snowy has reverted to the Tiger method?]. ANYONE here got 10.6? -- please post the proper profile!

Anyway, there's no denying the "/bin/sbin:" in your profile there [post #19] is the bug.

No one else reading this has Snow Leopard?
[tried finding it on the web, but no luck yet]

/etc/profile on my 10.6.1 machine is identical to your 10.5 version...

Ah-ha... therefore that file on a1anm's machine may be the result of an upgrade procedure gone bad or some poorly written software install by a 3rd-party perhaps...

EDIT: stuff like that bothers me... it makes one wonder what else is florfed, that isn't apparent as yet.