Can't execute scripts [SOLVED]

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I’ve just bought a new laptop - Dell Latitude E5570 - and am still trying to come to terms with its quirks. Installed Ubuntu 20.04.

I have all my scripts in a directory /home/keith/.bin and have changed the PATH to include it:
keith@E5570:~$ echo $PATH
/home/keith/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

…and I’ve made the scripts executable. But when I type a script name I get a “command not found” error.

I’ve not had problems in the past as the process is so simple. Any ideas what I’m not doing?

Keith

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Keith,

it looks like you’ve done this, but I’ll add it here for others:
https://www.poftut.com/set-path-bash-shell-linux/

I assume that these work:
/home/keith/.bin/script.sh
and
~/.bin/script.sh
?

i’d check the directory permissions too…may ensure those permit execute too (just in case)

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thinking about it…

/home or /home/keith isn’t on another partition is it??? check /etc/fstab isn’t mounting them as ‘non executable’

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Hi Brian.

Your commands don’t work, surprisingly, although if I go to the directory .bin where the scripts are, that appears to work.
But your suggestion of changing directory permissions worked a treat! As directory permissions are not generally shown, it didn’t even occur to me to try that.
Many thanks.

Keith