Running script problem
 

Hello everybody...

I would like your help with the following problem...

I've created a Java application which starts running from a class named "main"...

In order to avoid the procedure of opening a terminal whenever a user wants to run the application, I've written the following very simple bash script:

//Script start

#! /bin/sh
java main

//Script end

The problem is that when I run the script from a terminal everything is fine, but if I double click on it from inside Konqueror or create a link on the desktop I get an error "Couldn't find the program 'main'"...

I would appreciate any help anyone could provide...

Thank you all in advance...

You can't have a space between the exclamation mark and /bin/sh.

As you have it in the message, it's the equivalent of a DOS batch file. The first line is interpreted as a comment (because of the space), and then runs "java main".

Hello Dark_Helmet...

Thank you for your immediate reply...

I corrected my script according to your post, but the problems still exists: double clicking on the script's icon in Konqueror produces the same error as before...

Most likely Konq doesn't know exactly where "java main" is located at on your system. Have you tried putting the full path to it?

Hello trickykid...

Thanks for your reply, too...

However I had no luck... Problem persists...

'java' is the Java's bytecode interpreter and is located in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/bin...
'main' is the class the interpreter has to run in order for the application to start...

I suppose 'main' in passed as an argument to the 'java' program...
Has this anything to do with the problem?

And why the script has the desired effect when run from a terminal window?

Something else I just figured out...

I renamed the script from 'main' to 'main.sh' and the error message changed to "Couldn't find the program 'main.sh'"...

I hope this gives some clue about what is goind on...

I solved it!

I examined a similar script and added a line "cd `dirname $0`" before "java main"...

Don't ask me why this worked, I do not know!

Thank you all for your posts...