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Trouble running a script

I want to have these two files being able to be run on my N810 to sync my todo list with the svn repository:

To retrieve updated content:

Code:

#!bin/bash



WORKING="/home/user/.gpe/"

SVNPATH="/media/mmc1/gpe/"



cd

ls -la

ls -d .*

ls -d {.*,*}

echo .*

echo {.*,*}

cd $SVNPATH

cp calendar categories contacts todo $WORKING

To commit content

Code:

#!bin/bash



WORKING="/home/user/.gpe/"

SVNPATH="/media/mmc1/gpe/"



cd

ls -la

ls -d .*

ls -d {.*,*}

echo .*

echo {.*,*}

cd $WORKING

cp calendar categories contacts todo $SVNPATH

echo $SVNPATH

svn commit

However, I am having a lot of trouble getting this working. I am not seeing any verbose output of those two scripts. It would be great to hear some suggestions. Thanks.

Re: Trouble running a script

Maybe you don't have bash installed.

In any case you should never ever use #!/bin/bash for sh-compatible scripts. There are only very rare cases where you really need a bash-specific feature. For all other sh scripts (if you've got bash or not) you should use
#!/bin/sh

Re: Trouble running a script

I did have bash installed. I tried #!/bin/sh and #!/bin/ash and still didn't work.

Re: Trouble running a script

A simple version (just doing ls -ld .*) works fine for me. Do you have the 'x' bit set? Try running the script with
sh -x name-of-script
which will list every line of the script as it executes.