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focusaurus / atom-format-shell

Format shell script from within atom text editor
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Error on XUbuntu: need to run as root or suid #11

Closed vlad2 closed 4 years ago

vlad2 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I have installed Atom as a Snap package on Ubuntu (X Ubuntu 19.04). I have installed shfmt as a Snap package on Ubuntu as well. I have installed format-shell 2.2.1.

Running shfmt from the command line works fine, I can format a shell script. However, when running from Atom I get this error:

need to run as root or suid

(And the file is not formatted.)

I've seen that format-shell plugin tries to run shfmt with the parameters "-i 2".

I don't understand why it gives that error message.

focusaurus commented 4 years ago

Hmm, you should not need to run atom nor shfmt as root. This is presumably something with snaps but unfortunately I don't know anything about snap packages so I can't really help. I suspect it's something to do with how the atom code from the snap interacts with system calls on the host system.