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

submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] ackthxbye@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what was missing. Thank you!

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks 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.