Running script in FreeBSD

Question

First steps in FreeBSD: trying to run my installation script. Fast help needed:

# ls
configure
# file configure
configure: Bourne-Again shell script text executable
# ./configure
./configure: Command not found
# configure
configure: Command not found

What is wrong, how can I execute this script?

Answer 1

Do you have bash installed? If not use FreeBSD Ports to install it. Use where bash to find out.

Answer 2

Use the force Luke :)

# pkg_add -r bash

Answer 3

May it be, that your's configure script doesn't have appropriate executions rights. Try to cast:

chmod 777 configure

If it works, fix it to

chmod 764 configure

Answer 4

configure scripts are ultra portable shell scripts. There is no need for bash here. The problem is somewhere else.

What's the first line in the configure script? Maybe a CR/LF snuck in, which is a common cause for a totally misleading error message saying that the script was not found, when it was the interpreter that was not found.

Please try /bin/sh ./configure

Answer 5

First line of this script (#!/usr/bin/bash, i suppose) should be changed to #!/usr/local/bin/bash. And of course, you should have shells/bash port installed.

Answer 6

Install the bash package using

pkg add bash

or

make -C /usr/ports/shells/bash install clean

By default FreeBSD comes with tcsh and a POSIX compatible FreeBSD sh

On older FreeBSD systems you will need to do

rehash

before you can run it.