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Lutris: Pre-launch / Post-exit scripts not being executed (feddit.org)

submitted 10 months ago by ackthxbye@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have space in the path of your script?

Is it executable?

[–] ackthxbye@feddit.org 0 points 10 months 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.

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does the script file have a shebang? (Something like #!/bin/sh as the first line)

[–] ackthxbye@feddit.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's what was missing. Thank you!

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ackthxbye@feddit.org 0 points 10 months 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?