Permission denied when launch python script via bash

Question

# ./scripts/replace-md5sums.py
bash: ./scripts/replace-md5sums.py: Permission denied

replace-md5sums.py has chmod 600

Answer 1

Mount your Windows partition with "exec" option - on some distros it's "noexec" by default.

Answer 2

Try this

python ./scripts/replace-md5sums.py

Answer 3

Check for id. It may have root permissions.

So type su and then execute the script as ./scripts/replace-md5sums.py.

It works.

Answer 4

Did you include

#!/usr/bin/python

as your first line?

Answer 5

I'm a Ubuntu user and I had the same issue, when I was trying to run python script through a bash script while files were located in a NTFS partition (even with su didn't work) then I've moved it home (ext4) then it worked.

Answer 6

Do “chmod +x script”

Now try executing