Try to execute a script (adduser.sh) in root /$

Question

I'm a new user to Linux and been practicing using creating/using scripts in bash.

I found a script to add new users automatically but when I try to run the script in root, I keep getting the same error message :'No such file or directory'. the message snippet is as follows:

student@Ubuntu1410:/$ chmod +x /home/student/Scripts/adduser.sh
student@Ubuntu1410:/$ ./adduser.sh
bash: ./adduser.sh: No such file or directory
student@Ubuntu1410:/$

Can we see the contents of the script? Where have you saved the script? have you used cd to go to that directory? — Tim, Jun 28 '15 at 11:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '15 at 10:08

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If your script is in /home/student/Scripts/ then start it from there.

cd /home/student/Scripts
./adduser.sh

Or with path

sh /home/student/Scripts/adduser.sh

I do not know what the script is. It probably will need sudo.

answered Jun 28 '15 at 10:08

Pilot6

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Thanks Pilot6I navigated to my Scripts directory and then used sudo ./adduser.sh and it worked perfectly – shuggs81 Jun 28 '15 at 11:44
@shuggs81 Just so you know for the future, there's a way to show your current location in the filesystem next to the command line prompt. The dot slash literally means run executable that is in the current working directory. Now, if you also add that Scripts folder to your $PATH variable, you can run scripts in that folder from anywhere. – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 28 '15 at 17:58
@Pilot6 good job noticing that the user wasn't in the right directory right away ! +1 – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 28 '15 at 17:58
@shuggs81 If the answer solves your problem, the appropriate thing to do is accept the answer. It creates clarity the answer worked for you. – Jacob Vlijm Jun 29 '15 at 10:10

Try to execute a script (adduser.sh) in root /$

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