how do i run a script? I tried sudo bash.....

[htdw3]

sen@sen-laptop:~$ dir
image-usb-stick.sh Music Public usb-raw-image-file.raw Videos
sen@sen-laptop:~$ sudo bash image-usb-stick.sh usb-raw-image-file.raw
Available USB Disk Devices:
device path not found
device path not found
device path not found
device path not found
/dev/N: sdb (stor_1022A
stor\x201022A\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
2136)
device path not found
device path not found
Device node to image [/dev/N: sdb]:



anybody know what I'm doing wrong
My 2.0gb thumb-drive is plugged in but not mounted.
Here's the script I'm trying to write the raw to the usb drive

#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to image USB sticks in an easy and hopefully safe reassuring way
# Aaron Bockover <abockover@novell.com>
#

function bail () {
echo "Error: $@" 1>&2
exit 1
}

function usage () {
echo "Usage: $0 <usb-raw-image-file>" 1>&2
exit 1
}

[[ $UID -eq 0 ]] || bail "You must be root"
udevadm --version &>/dev/null || bail "Could not run udevadm"

OPTION_IMAGE_FILE=$1
[[ -z "$OPTION_IMAGE_FILE" ]] && usage
[[ -e "$OPTION_IMAGE_FILE" ]] || bail "USB Raw Image file not found"

FIRST_DEVICE=

function list_usb_devices () {
echo "Available USB Disk Devices:"

for dev in $(/sbin/udevadm info --export-db | \
awk '/^P:/{sub("^P:[[:space:]]*", "", $0); print}'); do
if udevadm info --path="$dev" --query=all | grep -q ID_TYPE=disk; then
if udevadm info --path="$dev" --query=all | grep -q ID_BUS=usb; then
MODEL=$(udevadm info --path="$dev" --query=all | \
awk -F= '/^E: ID_MODEL/{print $2}')
ROOT=$(udevadm info --root)
NODE=$(udevadm info --path="$dev" --query=all | \
awk '/^N:/{sub("^N:[[:space:]]*", "", $0); print}')
NODE="${ROOT}/${NODE}"

if echo "$NODE" | grep -q "[0-9]$"; then
continue
fi

if mount | grep -q "^${NODE}"; then
echo " ${NODE} (${MODEL}) - MOUNTED"
mount | grep "^${NODE}" | sed 's,type.*,,;s,^, ,'
else
echo " ${NODE} (${MODEL})"
fi

[[ -z "$FIRST_DEVICE" ]] && FIRST_DEVICE="$NODE"
fi
fi
done

[[ -z "$FIRST_DEVICE" ]] && return 1 || return 0
}

function unmount_device () {
for mount in $(mount | grep "^${1}" | cut -f3 -d' '); do
umount "$mount" || bail "Could not unmount ${mount} on ${1}"
done
}

function image_device () {
PROGRESS_FILE=$(mktemp)
TOTAL_SIZE=$(stat -c%s "$2")
[[ -e "$PROGRESS_FILE" ]] || bail "Could not create temp file"
( dd if="$2" of="$1" &>"$PROGRESS_FILE" &
DD_PID=$!
while ps -p $DD_PID &>/dev/null; do
sleep 1
kill -USR1 $DD_PID &>/dev/null
COPIED=$(tail -n1 < "$PROGRESS_FILE" | cut -f1 -d' ')
PERCENT=$(echo "" | \
awk '{print int(('$COPIED'/'$TOTAL_SIZE') * 100)}')
printf "\r${COPIED}/${TOTAL_SIZE} (%d%%) " $PERCENT
done
echo
rm -f "$PROGRESS_FILE"
) || bail "Failed to image ${1}"
}

if ! list_usb_devices; then
echo " No devices found."
exit 1
fi

if [[ -z "$OPTION_DEVICE_NODE" ]]; then
read -p "Device node to image [$FIRST_DEVICE]: " OPTION_DEVICE_NODE
[[ -z "$OPTION_DEVICE_NODE" ]] && OPTION_DEVICE_NODE="$FIRST_DEVICE"
fi

[[ -e "$OPTION_DEVICE_NODE" ]] || \
bail "Device node $OPTION_DEVICE_NODE not found"

if mount | grep -q "^${OPTION_DEVICE_NODE}"; then
if [[ -z "$OPTION_UNMOUNT" ]]; then
read -p \
"Device ${OPTION_DEVICE_NODE} is mounted. Unmount it? (Y/N) [Y]: " \
OPTION_UNMOUNT
[[ -z "$OPTION_UNMOUNT" ]] && OPTION_UNMOUNT="y"
fi

if [[ "$OPTION_UNMOUNT" = "y" || "$OPTION_UNMOUNT" = "Y" ]]; then
echo "Unmounting ${OPTION_DEVICE_NODE}..."
unmount_device "$OPTION_DEVICE_NODE"
else
bail "Cannot image ${OPTION_DEVICE_NODE} without unmounting it"
fi
fi

echo "Imaging ${OPTION_DEVICE_NODE} with $(basename ${OPTION_IMAGE_FILE})..."
image_device "${OPTION_DEVICE_NODE}" "${OPTION_IMAGE_FILE}"

echo "Syncing..."
sync

echo "Ejecting..."
eject "${OPTION_DEVICE_NODE}"

echo "Done."

[Confuseling]

I don't know anything about that script, but the general way is to execute it by name including extension, starting with its path (unless it's already in your $PATH). Its path can be relative, but it must be explicit, so if you're executing my.script.sh from the same directory you'd put

./my.script.sh arguments

(because "." means "this directory" and "/" means "relative to" whatever precedes it (if nothing precedes it it means root of the present file hierarchy))

It has to be executable, so you might need to "chmod +x my.script.sh" first, which, depending on where it is, may need to be run as root.

This may not help at all - I'm new at this