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azo_blnt
azo_blnt

Reputation: 11

Bash script not running in Ubuntu

I'm getting started with bash scripting and made this little script following along a short guide but for some reason when I run the script with sh myscript I get 

myscript: 5: myscript: 0: not found running on ubuntu 12.04

here is my script below I should at least see the echo message if no args are set:

#!/bin/bash
#will do something

name=$1
username=$2
if (( $# == 0 ))
then
    echo "##############################"
    echo "myscript [arg1] [arg2]"
    echo "arg1 is your name"
    echo "and arg2 is your username"
fi

var1="Your name is ${name} and your username is ${username}"

`echo ${var1} > yourname.txt`

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3540

Answers (2)

John Kugelman
John Kugelman

Reputation: 361575

`echo ${var1} > yourname.txt`

Get rid of the backticks.

echo ${var1} > yourname.txt

...for some reason when I run the script with sh myscript...

Don't run it that way. Make the script executable and run it directly

chmod +x myscript
./script

(or run with bash myscript explicitly).

Upvotes: 4

Cody Stevens
Cody Stevens

Reputation: 414

It looks like that expression will work in bash but not in sh. As others pointed out change it to executable, make sure your shebang line is using bash and run it like this:

./myscript

If you want to run it with sh then it is complaining about line 5. Change it to this and it will work in /bin/sh. 

if [ $# -ne 0 ]

Check out the man page for test.

Also you don't need the backticks on this line: echo ${var1} > yourname.txt

Upvotes: 1

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