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LukeSmithxyz / lb

Blog & RSS system in less than 100 lines of shell script
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./lb: line 36: [directory shit]/test.html: Permission denied #2

Closed miskeeping closed 6 years ago

miskeeping commented 6 years ago

Okay, so I'm probably going to look like a total brainlet (which I am,) but I really can't figure this out. I've tried messing with the script, keeping it as default, re-cloning, a lot of the logical stuff. The 2018.html file has the correct comment for LB to theoretically work, but I constantly get that error when trying to run ./lb new. Please go light on how stupid I am.

Hope that's enough info.

LukeSmithxyz commented 6 years ago

Well it sounds like you don't have permission to edit the directory in question. You should make sure that the folder and its contents belong to the user you are with chown or at least that you have editing privileges there.

miskeeping commented 6 years ago

I just checked to see if I own it, chown says that I do in fact own the directory. Same exact error, too. Just to be sure, though, the command I did was sudo chown squibs ~/lb/blog/.drafts/. Running that with verbose mode says that it's retained by me, so I don't know what's up. Anything else I could try?

wickdChromosome commented 6 years ago

Have you made lb executable before doing ./lb new? Try chmod +x lb and then try executing it.

miskeeping commented 6 years ago

@wickdChromosome Yeah I tried that, same error still.

LukeSmithxyz commented 6 years ago

Oh you know what I think it is, that line, line 36 calls your $EDITOR to open the draft file, so if you don't have an $EDITOR set, it will appear as blank and thus try to run your blog file as a command.

It's good form to always make sure you have the $EDITOR value set to your preferred text editor (e.g. vim) on your systems, as a lot of scripts, including this one use it. Look up how to do that permanently and then log back in and try running it again.

If you don't want to do that, you can go into the script and change $EDITOR to vim or whatever editor you like manually and not have to worry about it.

Tell me if that works.

miskeeping commented 6 years ago

@LukeSmithxyz That fixed it, thank you so much! Thank you @wickdChromosome as well for your help. Closing the issue now.