Bash script prints "Command Not Found" on empty lines Bash script prints "Command Not Found" on empty lines linux linux

Bash script prints "Command Not Found" on empty lines


Make sure your first line is:

#!/bin/bash

Enter your path to bash if it is not /bin/bash


Try running:

dos2unix script.sh

That wil convert line endings, etc from Windows to unix format. i.e. it strips \r (CR) from line endings to change them from \r\n (CR+LF) to \n (LF).

More details about the dos2unix command (man page)


Another way to tell if your file is in dos/Win format:

cat scriptname.sh | sed 's/\r/<CR>/'

The output will look something like this:

#!/bin/sh<CR><CR>echo Hello World<CR><CR>

This will output the entire file text with <CR> displayed for each \r character in the file.


You can use bash -x scriptname.sh to trace it.


I also ran into a similar issue. The issue seems to be permissions. If you do an ls -l, you may be able to identify that your file may NOT have the execute bit turned on. This will NOT allow the script to execute. :)

As @artooro added in comment:

To fix that issue run chmod +x testscript.sh