Terminal error: zsh: permission denied: ./startup.sh

Question

I am running a command

./startup.sh nginx:start

and I am getting this error message

zsh: permission denied: ./startup.sh

why could this be happening?

Answer 1

Be sure to give it the execution permission.

cd ~/the/script/folder

chmod +x ./startup.sh

This will give exec permission to user, group and other, so beware of possible security issues. To restrict permission to a single access class, you can use:

chmod u+x ./startup.sh

This will grant exec permission only to user

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