Manually Simulate "bad interpreter: Text file busy"

Asked Jul 19 '18 at 10:29

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Sometimes I get an error:

chmod +x a.sh
./a.sh

Error

a.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy

I figured out the solutions was to add a sleep between the two lines:

BUT the problem is I am not able to re-create the issue which makes the text file busy. I basically want to

edited Jul 19 '18 at 11:10

asked Jul 19 '18 at 10:29

Srinath Ganesh

I think you get this message from "cp" when you try to replace a file that is at that time running. How you incorporate that in a.sh is up to you unless you, at the least, show us the contents of that script. – Rinzwind Jul 19 '18 at 10:43
the shell script is a 3rd party file which I use as-is, https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/gremlin-server/src/main/bin/gremlin-server.sh – Srinath Ganesh Jul 19 '18 at 10:48
oops I'll fix the post – Srinath Ganesh Jul 19 '18 at 11:08
From what I can find online, this issue appears to be specific to docker and possibly to particular storage containers - see for example Docker make .sh executable and run it ? – steeldriver Jul 19 '18 at 11:59
it works fine 100 times, just one rare case it fails. I have found a way to fix it (links in post), just need to find a way to make it fail with "busy file" error – Srinath Ganesh Jul 19 '18 at 12:05

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