shell script: bad interpreter: No such file or directory when using pwd

Question

I want to go through the files in a directory with a for loop but this comes up.

echo: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

code:

Answer 1

so, if you change your username group priority from username to root, you should change

#!/user/bin/bash

to

#!/bin/bash

check your user group (my username is rommi)

$ groups rommi

this command will output:

rommi : root adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lxd lpadmin sambashare

since my username group priority is set to root, i should change my script to

#!/bin/bash

i change the priority group using:

sudo usermod -g root rommi

if groups rommi command outputs:

rommi : rommi adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lxd lpadmin sambashare

then my script should use #!/usr/bin/bash

fail make this changes will resutl in bad interpreter: No such file or directory error

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Removing #!/bin/bash did the trick for me. It seems that is not necessary to add where bash is located, since it is on the system path.

I found another solution here. Change

#!/bin/bash

for

#!/usr/bin/bash

Answer 3

In my case the bash script was created on a Windows PC which added a carriage return character in front of every line feed. \x0D\x0A instead of just \x0A. I replaced all the CRLF with just LF using the sed and my script works now.

sed -i 's//\r/\n//\n/g' /path/to/file.sh

Answer 4

I have followed the steps from the following link and issue has been resolved.

Ref link: script error - bad interpreter Actually, there was an extra ^M symbol at the end of each line. So, after the removal of that, it worked fine for me.

Hope it helps!

Answer 5

If you did use Homebrew to install BASH,

Removing the #!/bin/bash will be suffice.