Question

I’m writing a bash script to add, commit, push all files in a directory.

#!/bin/bash  
git add .  
read -p "Commit description: " desc  
git commit -m $desc  
git push origin master

I’m getting the following error:

$ ./togithub  
Commit description:   
test commit script  
error: pathspec 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git.  
error: pathspec 'script"' did not match any file(s) known to git.  
Everything up-to-date

I’m not sure if this is a problem with reading in the text (it echos fine) or passing it to git commit -m.

Answer 1

You have to do:

git commit -m "$desc"

In the current script, test is going as commit message and commit and script are being treated as next arguments.