Help running scripts within scripts

[SimpleSi]

Sometimes I get really frustrated when the diffs between Linux and MS catch me out

I'm trying to automate my eeePC deployment by creating a superscript to run all the things I've put on the wiki
Auto Connect but I'm bombing out straight away.

Should this script work

#!/bin/bash

sudo mkdir /mnt/sharename
sudo chmod 777 /mnt/sharename

sudo cp ./etc/network/if-up.d/nynetstart /etc/network/if-up.d/mynetstart

sudo chmod 777 /etc/network/if-up.d/mynetstart

sudo cp ./home/user/.network-autostart /home/user/.network-autostart

sudo chmod 777 /home/user/.network-autostart

sudo ln -s /mnt/sharename sharename

I try running it using
sh ./installnet.sh (which is what is called) (its in /home/user)

I'm just getting garbage error msgs saying things like ":command not foundne 2:" and then finding there is a folder called sharename? being created in /mnt

I know I'm missing something fundemental but I can't work out what

help

regards

Simon

[Geoff]

add this as the second line of your script:

set -x

Read through the output carefully.

More info on the 'set' command can be found by typing 'help set' at your nearest console window.

[Gerry]

sudo cp ./etc/network/if-up.d/nynetstart /etc/network/if-up.d/mynetstart

Simon

Possibly a slight typo in the above line?

[SimpleSi]

@geoff

As usual - your comments are of no practical use but I'm sure with another 4 hours of work I could get there

(I just get
:invalid option line 2: set: -


Could you not just say in english what I need to do?

@Gerry - ta for info - it'll come in handy when I get the 1st line working

regards

Simon

[Gerry]

Try running the script like this:

sudo ./installnet.sh

I typed in "help sh" and got

shift: shift [n]
    The positional parameters from $N+1 ... are renamed to $1 ...  If N is
    not given, it is assumed to be 1.
shopt: shopt [-pqsu] [-o long-option] optname [optname...]
    Toggle the values of variables controlling optional behavior.
    The -s flag means to enable (set) each OPTNAME; the -u flag
    unsets each OPTNAME.  The -q flag suppresses output; the exit
    status indicates whether each OPTNAME is set or unset.  The -o
    option restricts the OPTNAMEs to those defined for use with
    `set -o'.  With no options, or with the -p option, a list of all
    settable options is displayed, with an indication of whether or
    not each is set.

[SimpleSi]

@gerry

Haven't got access to a machine until tonight but I'm sure I tried sudo ing and got a different error msg but I'll try again )

I typed in "help sh" and got

Don't know what you are trying to tell me!

regards

Simon

[Gerry]

Ooops! Quite right, doesn't make much sense out-of-context! And it's actually wrong - my initial thought after running "help sh" in a terminal was that it was not Bash but something else. I should have used "man sh" - more descriptive. I'm not a Linux guru, but I have been using Ubuntu now for a few months.

You don't need to use "sh ./installnet.sh" if you make the script executable. In a terminal type:

sudo chmod +x installnet.sh

then you can remove the "sh".

If your script still won't work, paste the full output from the terminal here for us to examine.

[SimpleSi]

@geoff - I'm very very sorry

I just thought that it would be something simple that someone could easily point out (like need to run as root or something like that )

And I was tearing my hair out cause I knew it was something simple

It was.

I'll make a new post so other pretend @nix geeks son't get caught out like me

Sorry again

regards

Simon