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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Shell Script opening and closing a program Post 302838081 by Don Cragun on Monday 29th of July 2013 12:10:04 AM
Old 07-29-2013
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Originally Posted by plsbbg
I'm running Debian. And yes, I did what the website said to do on Windows. Those are commands for batch files. I'm running Debian, not Windows.
Don't know what /bin/sh is on the system.

I'm running Firefox. I'm not using the enterprise edition. The script isn't modified, I just removed some comments at the top
The syntax is different between UNIX and Linux shell scripts and Windows batch scripts, but the commands that need to be run to bring up your iMacros script in a Firefox window should be very similar.

The examples shown on the web page you referenced all invoke a browser and give it an operand that is a relative pathname to an iMacros script. Your shell script does not invoke a browser; it just invokes your iMacros script (with no operands or options) as if it were a standalone command. There is absolutely no indication on the web page you referred to that the command line you're using should work. It may well do what you want, but there is nothing on the web page you referenced that would explain why it should.

I'm sorry that you don't realize that deleting three lines from a shell script is modifying that script. There is nothing obviously wrong in the 9 lines you showed us, but the syntax error on line 12 clearly tells us that something in the 3 lines you didn't show us are causing a syntax error in the 9 lines you showed us (or you changed something else in the 9 lines you showed us).

Since you refuse to show us the code that seems to be causing your problem, I don't see how we can help.
 

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