[tor-talk] Run the shell script

[Seth Schoen]

σмαя ησƒℓ wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've downloaded and extracted the tor bundle for linux but I can't run/execute the shell script (start-tor-browser) because when I click on it it opens by the text editor (gedit)! I've tried going to setting then Edit->Preferences->Behavior-> Executable text files but it's already "Ask each time" and it still open the script by the gedit without asking me anything!
> 
> Can you please help.
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64-bit
> 
> Thanks in advanced!
> 
> Sincerely,

The traditional way to run a shell script is to open a terminal, change
to the directory where the shell script is located (with the "cd"
command), and then type the name of the shell script, preceded by "./",
like

cd /somewhere/someplace
./myshellscript

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