I am trying the cd into /storage/.kodi/userdata to run a python app. I can do it with a cli command.
cd /storage/.kodi/userdata
fails with a no such directory error.
what do I need to do?
I can cd and execute the python script using a ssh cli just will not work with a shell script that I want to run with cron. If I run the script in the directory the shell script will execute the python script . CD is the problem not python.
Cron does not execute things in the default environment so you need to use the full path, e.g. /bin/bash /storage/.path/to/script.sh
That is not the problem. I haven't got to the cron part yet. I know how to do that.
the script is simple
/opt/zap2/zap.sh:
#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/zap2
python3 zap2epg.py
I have fixed zap2epg, it runs fine from the directory.
The script will not do the cd, I have tried source /opt/zap2/zap.sh
the error is -bash: cd: $'/opt/zap2\r': No such file or directory
The script was generated on notepad ++ and a try on nano
If I am in the directory and run the script the python runs.
LibreELEC (chewitt): 12.80.0 (RPi5.aarch64)
RPi5:~ # ls -l /
total 17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 9 07:40 bin -> /usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4240 May 16 15:26 dev
drwxrwxr-x 22 root root 1004 May 9 07:40 etc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 flash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 9 07:40 lib -> /usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 9 07:40 media -> /var/media
dr-xr-xr-x 218 root root 0 May 15 21:58 proc
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 600 May 15 21:58 run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 9 07:40 sbin -> /usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 May 6 21:24 storage
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 May 15 21:58 sys
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 180 May 15 21:59 tmp
drwxrwxr-x 10 root root 153 May 6 07:15 usr
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 220 May 15 21:58 varThe error is self-explanatory ^ the /opt directory does not exist in LibreELEC and you cannot add it, so you need to modify the script to use some location on the persistent /storage area.
I forgot to say I was aware of no /opt in LE. The example I gave was on another Ubuntu machine for testing since I was thinking it might be a LE limitation.
On LE I was actually using /storage/,kodi/addon_data/script.module.zap2epg. I had the same result there. For testing sake everything is set to 777.
I did figure out that on LE to cd to /storage/.kodi I had to do cd ~/.kodior cd $HOME/.kodi
I seem to have found the problem: the \r that somehow got in. I thought notepad++ and nano didn't add that.
the new script is after I ran it through dos2unix
#!/bin/bash
# Change directory to /opt/zap2
cd "$HOME/zap2" || { echo "Error: Could not change directory"; exit 1; }
# Execute the Python3 script (assuming it's named zap2_script.py)
python3 zap2epg.py || { echo "Error: Python script failed"; exit 1; }
# Script exits successfully
exit 0
