Bash program not being found, right in front of my face

butgabba

4/27/23, 7:33 AM

I keep trying to run a bash script in the terminal but it always returns with:

No such file or directory
program.sh: line 2: cd: /directory/to/my/program: No such file or directory
program.sh: line 3: ./directory: No such file or directory

Using Ubuntu 20.04.3

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matigo

4/27/23, 7:41 AM

The error is not saying that the `.sh` file cannot be found, but that an `etterna` directory cannot be found in your home directory.

Yuri Sucupira

4/27/23, 9:52 AM

You don't need to type `bash etternalaunch.sh`, just make the script executable by running `chmod +x etternalaunch.sh` at its directory location (e.g. `~/Downloads/etterna`), then just run `./etternalaunch.sh` and bash will be automatically invoked to run such script. As @matigo explained, bash does execute the script, but then it reads the line 2 of `etternalaunch.sh`, informs you that it didn't find the directory `etterna` at `/home/j0hndoe/`, then it reads the line 3 of `etternalaunch.sh` and informs you that it didn't find `./etterna` (i.e. `~/Downloads/etterna/etterna), either.

butgabba

4/27/23, 9:46 PM

Is there any reason why it wouldn't find the directory? I made the script executable and it still gives me the same error. I'm new to linux as a whole.

Elder Geek

4/29/23, 9:47 PM

@butgabba The usual reason for a file or directory to not be found is that it doesn't exist. Other possible reasons would be corruption in the file system, or even a typo in the script. Please [edit] your post to include the output of `ls /home/j0hndoe`

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karel

4/28/23, 1:43 AM

The etternalaunch.sh shell script expects to be run from the parent directory of the etterna directory. The parent directory of the etterna directory is located at ~/Downloads/. Copy the etternalaunch.sh file from the etterna directory to the Downloads directory and run it again.

cp ~/Downloads/etterna/etternalaunch.sh ~/Downloads/
cd ~/Downloads/
./etternalaunch.sh

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EN: Bash program not being found, right in front of my face

TH: ไม่พบโปรแกรม Bash อยู่ตรงหน้าฉัน

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