bash scripts no longer running in terminal

taylorkh · 08-11-2022, 06:47 PM

When I start a bash script by clicking on it in Caja (MATE desktop) on CentOS 7 the script will no longer launch a terminal window so I can see what is happening. I did not intentionally make any preference changes nor do I know where to start looking for any preference which waould cause this. It is very disconcerting. I launch one of my nightly backup scripts and I do not see anything happening.

Any suggestions?

TIA,

Ken

p.s. The scripts do seem to be running.

aus9 · 08-11-2022, 09:19 PM

Hi I do not use caju but I think your file associations have got "lost" for the script.

File associations work normally with extensions....so .sh would be one type

if interested in file manager if RH mouse user click mouse button to bring up context menu against your script and then "associate" it to open a terminal etc

https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/inde...topic=149973.0

taylorkh · 08-12-2022, 07:13 AM

Thanks aus9,

I do not think there is an association in he normal sense. These are files marked executable and starting with a shebang #!/bin/bash. They can be opened to edit as an option but their normal behavior is to be run by bash.

Ken

MadeInGermany · 08-12-2022, 03:15 PM

aus9 is correct, Gnome and Mate use a table with actions, usually based on filename extension.
Try the option (right) mouse button on the executable file in caja.

The OS/kernel runs executables directly, without starting a GUI terminal.

raja.genupula · 08-16-2022, 11:34 AM

I am not sure on caja. but, did you try to launch the same script that you want to trigger from caja and how that works ?

teckk · 08-16-2022, 12:59 PM

Shell scripts are made to run in the shell. They often times spit out messages. You may want to launch them with something like:

Code:

xterm -T "My Script" -e "/path/to/script/script.sh"