[SOLVED] making script executable

rabiticide · 09-08-2009, 01:52 PM

I am running both Ubuntu and Scientific Linux (which is just RedHat rebranded, I think). I have a small shell script on both desktops called nowire.

For both, I did chmod +x nowire

when I click in ubuntu, the shell script runs
when I click in redhat, the file opens in a wordprocessor, not matter what I do.

ubuntu has gnome and the redhat has kde, which may be the problem (?) but i want the script to run in scientific linux/kde. what am I missing?

rK

TBC Cosmo · 09-08-2009, 02:04 PM

What happens in SL when you try to execute from a terminal session? Also, Is there a path to the interpreter in the very top of script? example:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

PTrenholme · 09-08-2009, 05:50 PM

In the "problem" Linux, check the file association settings. (It's somewhere in the "system settings" application, IIRC. I'm using KDE 4.3.1 under Fedora 12 right now, and it's under "Advanced User Settings"->Application->x-executable, where the application list is empty, but the "left-click" action is to show the application in the "viewer.") Anyhow, compare the setting with what's in the similar association setting on your Ubuntu system. I suspect that all you'll need to do is add "bash" to the list of programs to use to open the executable.

rabiticide · 09-08-2009, 09:41 PM

I couldn't find any advanced user settings (I'm kde 3.5) but the other suggestion worked