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Run bash script without chmod

I'm creating bash scripts with .sh extensions, performing smiple tasks, but every new script I have to modify with chmod to run. I see that repositories I download from github/bitbucket containing scripts don't need this and can be run out of the box. How can I achieve this, so when someone download my repository can run this without running chmod +x first. I'm working on MacOS Big Sur

Solution

  • I you chmod +x the file locally, git will see that as a change to the file, and you can push that change so that anybody else who clones the repo has the executable permissions:

    chmod +x script.sh
git add script.sh
git commit -m'make script.sh executable'
git push # if you are on a tracking branch

    then is will be executable for everybody

    I think that is how the repositories that you downloaded accomplished that.