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?

      • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml
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        1 day ago

        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/cat will print the full contents of the file (including the shebang) and #!/bin/echo will 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.

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          1 day ago

          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?

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      1 day ago

      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.