Bin/Bash: Bad Interpreter: No Such File or Directory
I Just Shifted from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu 18.04). .. and Following a Tutorial to Learn Bash Scripting. .. I Wrote a Simple Shell Script #! Bin/Bash Echo...
I just shifted from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)...and following a tutorial to learn bash scripting...
I wrote a simple shell script
#!bin/bash
echo "Hello World"
but when I tried to run it using
$ ./test1.sh
it throws an error
bash: ./test1.sh: bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
When I am running it using
$ bash test1.sh
it runs fine
I tried searching it and found many answers but all covers errors due to some difference between windows newline ^M and ubuntu newline...I tried opening it in VIM under binary mode(don't know what it is) but it did'not have any ^M tag after bin/bash.
Please suggest what I am doing wrong.
3 Answers
You’re missing a leading slash making the shebang an absolute path:
#!/bin/bash
# ↑ here
In your case, the shell seems to be searching for ./bin/bash.
The shebang (and also executable permission) is only taken into account if you’re running the script as a program:
$ ./test1.sh
It is ignored if you directly run the interpreter and provide your script as an argument:
$ bash test1.sh
See also:
Although this is an old question, since there is no explanation towards the ^M problem, maybe it's useful:
- ^M comes from the difference between "Windows" return and Linux return.
- Simplest solution is to use an editor to convert all the return in your script from CRLF (Win) to LF (Linux), e.g. VS Code.
Sorry for reviving old topic but I had the same issue and managed to fix it, not sure what exactly helped but did all the things listed below. First of all install Gedit through the command:
sudo apt-get install gedit
Then make sure that you saved the script with Unix/Linux line ending. After this, type in terminal, while being in the proper folder:
chmod +x filename
The last thing is replacing in script itself
#!bin/bash
with
#!/bin/bash
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