Bash shell scripting

Dear Mac Users:
I have a bash script which I copied from a bash book to learn how to use bash. Whenever I try to run it on Linux (cygwin--Windows Linux interpreter) it throws an error that something is wrong with the syntax.
But when I try to run the same script on my Mac using Terminal.app the bash shell throws an error saying access denied. I chowned a copy of bash and referenced this copy in my script but I still get the error. I also chowned the script to the user account on my Mac. Why can I not run the script?

#!/bin/bash
# cookbook filename: mkalbum
# makalbum - make an html "album" of a pile of photo files
# ver 2.0
# An album is a directory of html pages.
# It will be created in the current directory
# An album page is the html to display one photo,with
# a title that is the filename of the photo, along with
# hyperlinks to the first, previous, next, and last photos.
# ERROUT
ERROUT()
printf "%b" "$@"
} >&2
# USAGE
USAGE()
ERROUT "usage: %s <newdir>
" $(basename $0)
# EMIT(thisph, startph, prevph, nextph, lastph)
EMIT()
THISPH="../$1"
STRTPH="${2%.*}.html"
PREVPH="${3%.*}.html"
NEXTPH="${4%.*}.html"
LASTPH="${5%.*}.html"
if [ -z "$3" ]
then
PREVLINE='<TD> Prev </TD>'
else
PREVLINE='<TD> Prev </TD>'
fi
if [ -z "$4" ]
then
NEXTLINE='<TD> Next </TD>'
else
PREVLINE='<TD> Next </TD>'
fi
cat <<EOF
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>$THISPH</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
$THISPH
<TABLE WIDTH = "25%">
<TR>
<TD> First </TD>
$PREVLINE
$NEXTLINE
<TD> Last </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
EOF
if (($# !=1 ))
then
USAGE
exit -1
fi
ALBUM="$1"
if [ -d "${ALBUM}"]
then
ERROUT "Directory [%s] already exists.
" ${ALBUM}
USAGE
exit -2
else
mkdir "$ALBUM"
fi
cd "$ALBUM"
PREV=""
FIRST=""
LAST="last"
while read PHOTO
do
# prime the pump
if [ -z "${CURRENT}" ]
then
CURRENT="$PHOTO"
FIRST="$PHOTO"
continue
fi
PHILE=$(basename "${CURRENT}")
EMIT "$CURRENT" "$FIRST" "$PREV" "$PHOTO" "$LAST" > "${PHILE%.*}.html"
#set up for next iteration
PREV="$CURRENT"
CURRENT="$PHOTO"
done
PHILE=$(basename ${CURRENT})
EMIT "$CURRENT" "$FIRST" "$PREV" "" "$LAST" > "${PHILE%.*}.html"
# make the symlink for "last"
ln -s "${PHILE%.*}.html" ./last.html
# make a link for index.html
ln -s "${FIRST%.*}.html" ./index.html

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Zhi-Yang-Ongs-Computer:/Applications/MetaPost/metapost-1.102 zhiyangong$ ./test1.sh
dyld: Symbol not found: _BC
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> ex. in linux this would work $variable = `df -h`
Um............. no, it wouldn't. First, you would not have a dollar
sign at the beginning; second, no spaces around equals signs. Try the
following:
variable=`df -h`
Better yet, try something really simple:
variable=testvalue
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Also keep in mind that some commands, I think volumes included, do not
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processes that run forever (find, for example, on an entire large
volume) as things like Ctrl+C do not seem to interrupt them well.
It may help if you tell us what you're really trying to do. There may
be better ways to pull this off.
Good luck.
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Lazaros

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Could you also point to some URL's which might help? Googling for "Java Gui for shell script" returns this as the first page, others dont really help. Googling "GUI for shell script" returns all other gui toolkits for xes but thats not what I want. I want a cross platform (nixes, Win*, MacOS* ) gui for a shell script ( which I plan to run using cygwin etc).
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mkdir ~/usb_music/
sudo mount -t ext2 -o nosuid,w,m=777,user /dev/disk1s5 ~/usb_music/
sudo chmod a+rwx ~/usb_music/
apple-script:
on run
try
do shell script ""
end try
end run
any ideas how to get it combined and working ?
best regards
fidel
MacBookPro 15,4" 1,83 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

is there a way to implement it in a way that normal users can work with sudo to mount the drive ?
kextload requires superuser privileges, so at some point some part of your script is going to need to run with elevated privileges.
It is possible to configure sudo to allow non-admins to run any other commands. You could either allow non-admins to to run kextload or, preferably, allow them to run your shell script.
man sudoers will give you the details on how to configure sudo to do this, which might be as simple as:
<pre class=command>ALL ALL=(ALL) /usr/local/bin/myscript</pre>
This will allow all users to run /usr/local/bin/myscript as root.

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----bash----------------------------------------
drwxr-xr-x@ 67 aa staff - 2278 Apr 6 07:42 .
com.apple.progress.fractionCompleted 14
0: group:everyone deny delete
uid=501(aa) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81( _appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),398(c om.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh)
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Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.oSzc5cau0v/Render
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TERM_SESSION_ID=AF09D92C-2CB4-4069-A172-0DE12EB226BD
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SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.RFhFIs94Ad/Listeners
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PWD=/Users/aa
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
SHLVL=1
HOME=/Users/aa
LOGNAME=aa
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/Users/aa
drwxr-xr-x@ 66 aa staff - 2244 Apr 6 07:42 .
com.apple.progress.fractionCompleted 14
0: group:everyone deny delete
uid=501(aa) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81( _appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),398(c om.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh)
0
SHELL=/bin/bash
TMPDIR=/var/folders/x9/y4r_w7gj4_j_3wkfxn6s6fqm0000gn/T/
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.oSzc5cau0v/Render
USER=aa
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.RFhFIs94Ad/Listeners
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XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
SHLVL=1
HOME=/Users/aa
LOGNAME=aa
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