Do I have to mark a shell script file as executable in order to use it from the "Execute a Shell Script" action?
If so, is there a KM Action that can do this? If not, do I have to use sudo to execute chmod?
I'd like to do this from a KM macro which I'd like to share with people. Is it possible?
Thanks.
You might want to consider creating an "Execute Shell Script" action programmatically in a macro, and then execute it. The reason for this is that you don't need to set any permissions when the script itself is inside a KM action.
That's an interesting solution. Under any other circumstances, I would do it just like that.
One of these days I'll be able to explain, but not right now. 
You can use an Execute Shell Script action which contains the following: (where you use the full path of your file.)
chmod 777 /Users/myname/data/x.sh
The number 777 makes it so that Owner, Group and World all have read/write/execute action. You might want to narrow that down to the minimum permissions required.
Yes. But depending on the script you can execute the interpreter explicitly.
For example:
/Path/to/test.pl
will fail with Permission Denied, but
perl /Path/to/test.pl
will work fine.
Otherwise you can add the executable bit, which generally does not require any more permission than being able to write the file.
chmod u+x ~/perl/test.pl
~/perl/test.pl
Thank you - that's exactly what I needed to know!
