Ubuntu – sudo ./ : command not found

command linesudo

http://youtu.be/8oYTrf9jnGk for a video i made of it in action.

N.B. – I have my nvidia .run file on my desktop – I double click it, and it appears to run but stops asking for sudo permissions.

So I open a terminal and attempt to run it via a sudo sh [file] and sudo ./[file] but both give file not found

if you can help fix this? then please do!

Best Answer

The File seems to be in your Desktop, so you first have to cd Desktop (or whatever its called in your language) before trying to run it. Try it and please inform if you succeed. This answer may change based on your results.

Thank you and Good Luck!

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You can check if the parent process is the shell. For example:

#! /bin/bash

if [[ $(readlink -f /proc/$(ps -o ppid:1= -p $$)/exe) != $(readlink -f "$SHELL") ]]
then 
    echo "Starting the shell..."
    exec "$SHELL"
else
    echo "Not starting a shell."
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ps -o ppid:1= -p $$ prints the PID of the parent process (ppid) of the current process (-p $$). A readlink on /proc/<pid>/exe should print the path to the executable, which would be the shell if you ran it in a shell, or something else otherwise.

Another possibility is the SHLVL variable, which indicates how nested the current the shell instance is. If run within a shell, the script should have SHLVL 2 or greater. When run by double clicking, or from a desktop launcher, it should be 1:

#! /bin/bash

if (( SHLVL > 1 ))
then 
    echo "Starting the shell..."
    exec "$SHELL"
else
    echo "Not starting a shell."
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