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Re: Need help with shell script.

From pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Need help with shell script.
Date 2026-08-10 19:27 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <115d8mk$3d7jb$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2026-08-10, Stanislav N. aka pztrn <pztrn@oldproto.invalid> wrote:
> 10.08.2026 16:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> The behaviour you describe is hauntingly familiar, but I cannot recall why...
>
> On my systems (arch and debian) that behavior was observed only if:
>
> 1. Script has no executable bit set.
> 2. Commands in script returns anything other than 0
>
> Probably it's #2 and I propose to change script into this:
>
> #!/bin/bash,
> mv ~/Desktop/*JPG ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/ || true
> mv ~/Desktop/*PDF ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/ || true
>
> Or even better:
>
> #!/bin/bash,
>
> set +e
>
> mv ~/Desktop/*JPG ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/
> mv ~/Desktop/*PDF ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/
>
> set -e
>
>

Thanks for the response. 

Even though I've got the thing working "well enough", I think I will give
this a try and see if the "launcher" complains.

(and you made me read up on "set"...always a good thing to learn a bit)

pH

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Need help with shell script. pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2026-08-09 23:32 +0000
  Re: Need help with shell script. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-08-10 01:01 +0000
    Re: Need help with shell script. c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-10 00:23 -0400
      Re: Need help with shell script. pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2026-08-10 05:04 +0000
        Re: Need help with shell script. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-10 05:44 +0000
          Re: Need help with shell script. pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2026-08-10 19:22 +0000
        Re: Need help with shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-10 12:12 +0100
          Re: Need help with shell script. vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-08-10 11:38 +0000
          Re: Need help with shell script. "Stanislav N. aka pztrn" <pztrn@oldproto.invalid> - 2026-08-10 16:40 +0500
            Re: Need help with shell script. pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2026-08-10 19:27 +0000
            Re: Need help with shell script. Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-10 23:58 +0000
              Re: Need help with shell script. Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-08-11 00:19 +0000
      Re: Need help with shell script. "Stanislav N. aka pztrn" <pztrn@oldproto.invalid> - 2026-08-10 16:31 +0500
        Re: Need help with shell script. c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-10 21:14 -0400
    Re: Need help with shell script. pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2026-08-10 04:59 +0000
      Re: Need help with shell script. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-10 05:41 +0000
      Re: Need help with shell script. pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2026-08-10 19:17 +0000
        Re: Need help with shell script. gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-08-10 20:08 +0000
  Re: Need help with shell script. Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-10 01:36 +0000

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