Re: Need help with shell script.

10.08.2026 16:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> The behaviour you describe is hauntingly familiar, but I cannot recall why...

On my systems (arch and debian) that behavior was observed only if:

1. Script has no executable bit set.
2. Commands in script returns anything other than 0

Probably it's #2 and I propose to change script into this:

#!/bin/bash,
mv ~/Desktop/*JPG ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/ || true
mv ~/Desktop/*PDF ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/ || true

Or even better:

#!/bin/bash,

set +e

mv ~/Desktop/*JPG ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/
mv ~/Desktop/*PDF ~/Desktop/Beckys_stuff/

set -e


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