I'm on Nobara 42 and use the pre-installed Lutris.
I'm trying to use pre-launch and post-exit scripts with Lutris.
My script looks like this: echo "pre launch" > /home/me/Documents/lutris.txt and creates the textfile when I run it manually.
I set the full path to the script in a game as a Pre-launch script and toggled Wait for pre-launch script completion to on.
The game just launches normally when I click play and the text-file is not created.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
7 Comments
ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
Does the script file have a shebang? (Something like
#!/bin/shas the first line)ackthxbye@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y
That's what was missing. Thank you!
ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
So it works now? If so, then glad to be of help.
Just remember that if your shebang points to sh, you can't rely on bash-specific features. The shebang line basically tells the kernel to run your file with the specified program. So, for example, a file with
#!/bin/catwill print the full contents of the file (including the shebang) and#!/bin/echowill print the command line. (something like ./script arg1 arg2) As the echo command does not try to interpret arguments as paths, the content of the script would be ignored in that case.ackthxbye@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, both the test-script that just echos and the real script I was trying to get to run now work.
I'm guessing when I run it from the terminal I'm already in the context of bash, so the script runs, but when Lutris runs the script I don't have this context?
INeedMana@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 1y
Do you have space in the path of your script?
Is it executable?
ackthxbye@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
There is no space in the path.
And it is executable, if I paste the exact line from the config-dialog into a terminal the script runs as expected and creates the text-file.
INeedMana@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1y
Just to be sure: this is a script, right? Sitting somewhere? Not just a command put directly in the config?
I think you might have to ask in https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues I'm out of ideas