Question

I tried a one line script that worked in one Linux based distro(Linux mint) but doesn’t work in another(Fedora). I typed the following line in my bash script.

mkdir $HOME/folder123

The error i receive:

bash: create.sh: No such file or directory

I tried creating a folder myself, it gave me a permission denied?

To clear things hopefully: mkdir is in the script create.sh and i run it in the terminal with the command bash create.sh

Answer 1

If I interpret your post correctly, you have a file create.sh that contains mkdir $HOME/folder123, and you’re trying to run it by typing create.sh.

To execute a script, chmod +x yourscript.sh then run it with either ./yourscript.sh if it’s in the current directory, or /home/whatever/yourdir/yourscript.sh if it’s in another directory.

To make just yourscript.sh work, you have to place it in a directory listen in $PATH.

You can do this by copying it to any of the directories listed in echo $PATH.

Alternatively, you can create a new directory such as mkdir /home/you/bin and then add export PATH="$PATH:/home/you/bin" at the end of your ~/.bashrc. Also make sure ~/.bash_profile contains the line source .bashrc. Then log out and in again.