Edit: Note that the original post has been edited since this answer was written and has been reformatted. You should look at the history to see the original formatting to understand the context for this answer. This error occurs often when you have mismatched structure – that is, you do not have matching double quotes, … Read more
Revised Answer (Feb 12, 2014) Original Answer Caveats: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21210966/89391 From: Using boolean variables in Bash The reason the original answer is included here is because the comments before the revision on Feb 12, 2014 pertain only to the original answer, and many of the comments are wrong when associated with the revised answer. For example, Dennis Williamson’s … Read more
Revised Answer (Feb 12, 2014) Original Answer Caveats: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21210966/89391 From: Using boolean variables in Bash The reason the original answer is included here is because the comments before the revision on Feb 12, 2014 pertain only to the original answer, and many of the comments are wrong when associated with the revised answer. For example, Dennis Williamson’s … Read more
Be sure to give it the execution permission. This will give exec permission to user, group and other, so beware of possible security issues. To restrict permission to a single access class, you can use: This will grant exec permission only to user For reference
chmod u+x program_name. Then execute it. If that does not work, copy the program from the USB device to a native volume on the system. Then chmod u+x program_name on the local copy and execute that. Unix and Unix-like systems generally will not execute a program unless it is marked with permission to execute. The … Read more
If you open your second link in a browser you’ll see the source code: […] So it’s a bash script. Got Linux? In any case, the script is nothing but a series of HTTP retrievals. Both wget and curl are available for most operating systems and almost all language have HTTP libraries so it’s fairly … Read more
If you open your second link in a browser you’ll see the source code: […] So it’s a bash script. Got Linux? In any case, the script is nothing but a series of HTTP retrievals. Both wget and curl are available for most operating systems and almost all language have HTTP libraries so it’s fairly … Read more