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I’m trying to get this ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ && ./start-tor-browser to run as a .sh. I've tried over and over again to get it to work, what am I doing wrong? 

#!/bin/bash 
chmod +x file.command ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ && ./start-tor-browser

It has execute permissions and is saved as an .sh.

Shonn Alves
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  • Have you added #!/bin/sh as the very first line of your script? – Terrance Apr 22 '15 at 03:19
  • yes, but its #!bin/bash and it has a line between it and my code. – Shonn Alves Apr 22 '15 at 03:21
  • #!/bin/bash tells the script to run in the bash shell and not the sh shell. Change it to #!/bin/sh – Terrance Apr 22 '15 at 03:21
  • I changed bash to sh, didnt work. – Shonn Alves Apr 22 '15 at 03:23
  • So that would look like sudo #!/bin/sh chmod +x file.command ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ && ./start-tor-browser ? – Shonn Alves Apr 22 '15 at 03:24
  • Where is the ./start-tor-browser? Is that located in the ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ folder? if so, your script should be #!/bin/sh as the first line. And cd ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ && ./start-tor-browser as the second line. – Terrance Apr 22 '15 at 03:26
  • No, you need to run chmod +x <filename> as a separate command after you save the file – mchid Apr 22 '15 at 03:26
  • so i need to save the file with #!/bin/sh chmod +x file.command ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ && ./start-tor-browser and create an new .sh that says chmod +x <filename>? – Shonn Alves Apr 22 '15 at 03:29
  • chmod +x sets the executable bit for a file. ./start-tor-browser is the command to start whatever that is. chmod +x is not needed in a script, as it does not need to set the bit every single time you run it. I am assuming that ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ is the folder on the desktop where start-tor-browser exists? – Terrance Apr 22 '15 at 03:32
  • yes, that were it is. And yes, #!/bin/sh as the first line and cd ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/ && ./start-tor-browser as the second line. – Shonn Alves Apr 22 '15 at 03:35
  • I'm going to write an answer with a way to create a script that will work for this. – Terrance Apr 22 '15 at 03:36
  • No, i dont think so. It works in the console without root, it does need cd though. – Shonn Alves Apr 22 '15 at 03:43

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Open a terminal and execute the following commands:

sudo nano /bin/start-tor

and copy/paste this into the file:

#!/bin/bash
~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser

Press CTRL + o to save the file and press CTRL + x to exit and then execute the following commands in an open terminal:

sudo chmod +x /bin/start-tor

To run the script, open a terminal and run:

start-tor &

This file is already chmod +x when downloaded.so there is no need to do all that.

mchid
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  • @ShonnAlves then erase all that stuff re-download it and extract the file again – mchid Apr 22 '15 at 03:42
  • @ShonnAlves I edited the answer to be more thorough and I just tested this and it works just fine for me – mchid Apr 22 '15 at 03:47
  • @ShonnAlves in the future, you would've just needed to run chmod +x ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser if you want to make that file executable. I think they confused you with the whole file.command thing it probably should have read <filename> or something like that instead so you would have known to substitute something else there. ohwhell glad to help! – mchid Apr 22 '15 at 03:54
  • For future reference, will "cd"work in nano mode? Forgive me for my apparent ignorance. – Shonn Alves Apr 22 '15 at 03:55
  • @ShonnAlves you could've used cd /bin first, and then sudo nano start-tor instead – mchid Apr 22 '15 at 04:00
  • @ShonnAlves sorry I edited that last response – mchid Apr 22 '15 at 04:01
  • @ShonnAlves or, if you just wanted to run the tor browser from the terminal without nano you could run cd ~/Desktop/Tor/tor-browser_en-US and then ./start-tor-browser – mchid Apr 22 '15 at 04:05