Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to be able to drag and drop a file into a script in the terminal but it doesn't like the /home/user prefix.
How do I get around this?

Not sure I get what your trying to do. But if this works for other
directories I would check the permissions on the file system where your
trying to place the file. Open it up with chmod 777 and see if that solves
your problem than close it up as needed.

The sledgehammer 777 is almost never the solution no matter what your problem is.

Please post your script so we can see how it processes parameters. You'll probably have to modify it to handle absolute paths if it doesn't take them already.

Are you trying to use the mouse to drag and drop a saved file into a terminal editor?

@pluto7777
Please take the advice of Corona688 and do not blindly change permissions to 777 on the advice from BeefStu. IMHO. It is the sign of a rank amateur and causes more problems than it ever fixes.
And ... in this case it is totally irrelevant to the question.

@pluto7777
Please expand considerably on the description of your problem, describing: what you did; what you expected to happen; and what actually happened (mentioning any error messages).

Yes. Here's the script. Just a simple video to animated gif maker.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo -n "Open File: "
IFS=: read input
echo -n "Size WxH: "
read size
echo -n "Colors 1-256: "
read color
echo -n "Frames Per Second: "
read frames
echo -n "Name Output: "
read output
ffmpeg -i "$input" -r "$frames" image%4d.png
mogrify -format gif *.png
gifsicle --resize "$size" --color-method blend-diversity -i -l0 -O2 -k "$color" *.gif > "$output"

I have a video file named Video01. I want to be able to drag and drop this file into Open File prompt.
Typing Video01 works. Dragging and dropping the file inserts a prefix /home/user/Video01 which does not work.

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@pluto7777
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file not found is the error

What terminal text editor are you using? Not all editors can copy/paste from the X11 clipboard.