Which directory does not exist? If you have moved the files to /home/user already, you don't need the command cp /home/user/MyDocs/smsimporter /home/user/ anymore. But chmod +x /home/user/smsimporter cd /home/user/ run-standalone.sh ./smsimporter sms.csv To verify that all files are there, ls -l /home/user/smsimporter ls -l /home/user/sms.csv nicolai