Bash script prints Command Not Found on empty lines

Question

Every time I run a script using bash scriptname sh from the command line in Debian  I get Command Not found and then the result of the script   The script works but there is always a Command Not Found statement printed on screen for each empty line  Each blank line is resulting in a command not found   I am running the script from the  var folder   Here is the script      bin bash  echo Hello World   I run it by typing the following   bash testscript sh   Why would this occur

User · Answer

Problems with running scripts may also be connected to bad formatting of multi-line commands, for example if you have a whitespace character after line-breaking "\". E.g. this:

./run_me.sh \ 
--with-some parameter

(please note the extra space after "\") will cause problems, but when you remove that space, it will run perfectly fine.

User · Answer

for executing that you must provide full path of that for example   home Manuel mywrittenscript

User · Answer

If you have Notepad   and you get this  sh Error Message   command not found  or this autoconf Error Message  line 615         autoconf bin autom4te  No such file or directory    On your Notepad    Go to Edit  -   EOL Conversion then check Macinthos CR   This will edit your files  I also encourage to check all files with this command  because soon such an error will occur

User · Answer

use dos2unix on your script file

User · Answer

On Bash for Windows I ve tried incorrectly to run  run me sh    without    at the beginning and got the same error   For people with Windows background the correct form looks redundant     run me sh

User · Answer

I was also having some of the Cannot execute command  Everything looked correct  but in fact I was having a non-breakable space  amp nbsp  right before my command which was ofcourse impossible to spot with the naked eye   if     true      then    amp nbsp highlight --syntax js  var i   0   fi   Which  in Vim  looked like   if     true      then   highlight --syntax js  var i   0   fi   Only after running the Bash script checker shellcheck did I find the problem

User · Answer

This might be trivial and not related to the OP s question  but I often made this mistaken at the beginning when I was learning scripting  VAR NAME     hostname  echo  the hostname is   VAR NAME       This will produce  command not found  response  The correct way is to eliminate the spaces   VAR NAME   hostname

User · Answer

Had the same problem  Unfortunately   dos2unix winfile sh bash  dos2unix  command not found   so I did this to convert    awk    sub   r         print    winfile sh  gt  unixfile sh   and then   bash unixfile sh

User · Answer

Try chmod u x testscript sh  I know it from here  http   www linuxquestions org questions red-hat-31 running-shell-script-command-not-found-202062

User · Answer

Add the current directory       to PATH to be able to execute a script  just by typing in its name  that resides in the current directory   PATH    PATH

User · Answer

You may want to update you  bashrc and  bash profile files with aliases to recognize the command you are entering    bashrc and  bash profile files are hidden files probably located on your C  drive where you save your program files

User · Answer

You can use bash -x scriptname sh to trace it

User · Answer

Make sure your first line is      bin bash   Enter your path to bash if it is not  bin bash    Try running   dos2unix script sh   That wil convert line endings  etc from Windows to unix format   i e  it strips  r  CR  from line endings to change them from  r n  CR LF  to  n  LF    More details about the dos2unix command  man page     Another way to tell if your file is in dos Win format   cat scriptname sh   sed  s  r  lt CR gt      The output will look something like this      bin sh lt CR gt   lt CR gt  echo Hello World lt CR gt   lt CR gt    This will output the entire file text with  lt CR gt  displayed for each  r character in the file

User · Answer

I ran into this today  absentmindedly copying the dollar command prompt    ahead of a command string  into the script

User · Answer

I also ran into a similar issue  The issue seems to be permissions  If you do an ls -l  you  may be able to identify that your file may NOT have the execute bit turned on  This will NOT allow the script to execute      As  artooro added in comment      To fix that issue run chmod  x testscript sh

User · Answer

If the script does its job  relatively  well  then it s running okay  Your problem is probably a single line in the file referencing a program that s either not on the path  not installed  misspelled  or something similar   One way is to place a set -x at the top of your script or run it with bash -x instead of just bash - this will output the lines before executing them and you usually just need to look at the command output immediately before the error to see what s causing the problem  If  as you say  it s the blank lines causing the problems  you might want to check what s actaully in them  Run   od -xcb testscript sh   and make sure there s no  invisible  funny characters like the CTRL-M  carriage return  you may get by using a Windows-type editor

[linux] Bash script prints "Command Not Found" on empty lines

Examples related to linux

Examples related to bash

Examples related to debian