Question

Issue Summary: My script works as it should when typed into the terminal, however, it does not work correctly when executed in terminal from a .sh file, why is this?

Script:

echo World of Clucky - Frisnuk "\033]0;Frisnuk - World of Clucky\a"
#! /usr/bin/env bash
BINDIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -fn "$0")")"
cd "$BINDIR"
while true
do
source /home/clucky/MinecraftServers/Frisnuk/serverconfig/config.sh
#Start Server
    java -Xms2000M -Xmx2000M -jar $serverjar.jar nogui
    if [ "`date +%w%H`" = "001" ]
    then
#Delete map files for The End
    rm -R /Frisnuk_the_end
    echo "End has been successfully reloaded"
    echo "[`date +%D\ %T`] End Reloaded" >> /home/clucky/MinecraftServers/Frisnuk/EndRestart.txt
#Change Item of The Week
    weekofyear=`date +%y\-%U`
    s=$(<serverconfig/ItemofTheWeek/item$weekofyear.txt)
    set -- $s
    itemoftheweekid=$2
    itemoftheweekprice=$3
    xmlstarlet edit -L -u "/scs-shop/itemStack[@type='double']" -v $itemoftheweekid /plugins/ShowCaseStandalone/ffs-storage/ffss_cac8480951254352116d5255e795006252d404d8
    xmlstarlet edit -L -u "/scs-shop/price[@type='double']" -v $itemoftheweekprice /plugins/ShowCaseStandalone/ffs-storage/ffss_cac8480951254352116d5255e795006252d404d8
fi
echo "If you want to stop the restart and shut the server off instead, please press Ctrl+C at this time"
for i in 5 4 3 2 1
do
    echo "$i..."
    sleep 1
done
echo "Restarting Server"
clear
done

Instead of working and running the server, it just says this:

World of Clucky - Frisnuk 
/home/clucky/MinecraftServers/Frisnuk/craftminecraft.sh: 7: /home/clucky/MinecraftServers/Frisnuk/craftminecraft.sh: source: not found

Error: Unable to access jarfile .jar
If you want to stop the restart and shut the server off instead, please press Ctrl+C at this time
5...
4...
3...
2...
1...

I am going to take a shower shortly, but I will be returning either later tonight, or tomorrow morning. Thank you in advanced for your assistance.

Answer 1

You put an echo before the shebang, so your script is being interpreted by dash, not bash.

dash doesn’t include source, because it’s not standard.

Correct your shebang and it’ll do the trick.

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The standard way to source a script is executing it with ..

Instead of source ./myScript.sh, you do . ./myScript.sh. They’re the same in bash.