prefsCleaner.sh cannot be run on fresh install of Pop!_OS 21.10

[Panja0]

• prefsCleaner.sh
• Go to the Firefox profile directory and run prefsCleaner.sh
• Error message: permission denied,
• Error message: When using sudo sh prefsCleaner.sh I get: 12: bad substitution, 15: bad substitution.

Fresh install of Pop!_OS 21.10, fully updated.
Any clue what's going on?

[rusty-snake]

Error message: permission denied,

How did you run it?

Did you made it executable?

sudo sh prefsCleaner.sh

DO NOT PRETEND sudo BEFORE A COMMAND IF IT IS NOT WORKING, sudo ISN'T A MAGICAL BUGFIXER!

prefsCleaner.sh is a bash script. You need to start it in bash, not dash, zsh, ksh or whatever, bash is the only right interpreter.

[Panja0]

Error message: permission denied,

How did you run it?

Did you made it executable?

sudo sh prefsCleaner.sh

DO NOT PRETEND sudo BEFORE A COMMAND IF IT IS NOT WORKING, sudo ISN'T A MAGICAL BUGFIXER!

prefsCleaner.sh is a bash script. You need to start it in bash, not dash, zsh, ksh or whatever, bash is the only right interpreter.

Cheers for the fast reply!
After applying chmod +x prefsCleaner.sh I was able to run the script without problems.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Strange thing is that updater.sh was already executable without applying chmod +x
It was executable right away so I thought prefsCleaner.sh had to be executable as well, but it wasn't.

[remyabel2]

Strange thing is that updater.sh was already executable without applying chmod +x

Git tracks the executable permission (but not any other permission). So whoever checked it into git already ran chmod +x on it but not for the other script.

Also you should be running it as ./prefCleaners.sh, you can see at the top that it says #!/usr/bin/env bash which implies that it is meant to be run with Bash.