Specify which shell NPM scripts run in - bash

I've run into a pretty dumb and frustrating issue.
My team is using this script quite regularly for development
cd client && source .env && yarn run start
They are all on macOS and it works fine. I am on Ubuntu and for some reason NPM sends this command to sh instead of bash (on sh the source command is . ) which throws an error.
I've spent hours trying to figure out how to change that but I can't see anything. Is there some setting I can change? Why does NPM choose sh instead of the much more common bash or zsh? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

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Running complex shell script in Dockerfile

I am running windows binaries in a linux container using wine. For convenience, I create runnable shortcuts that invoke wine behind the scenes so my python code invoking these CLI tools works fine in Windows and Linux.
This is how my shortcut generation looks like:
for exe in /opt/tools/bin/*.exe; do
tool="${exe##*/}"
tool="${tool%.exe}"
cat <<EOF > /opt/app/bin/${tool}
#!/bin/bash
wine /opt/tools/bin/${tool}.exe "\${#}"
EOF
chmod 755 /opt/app/bin/${tool}
done
I tried to run this in a RUN command straight in the Dockerfile but that failed with some cryptic error, so I ended up just storing the script in a file that I copy into the image and then run.
COPY ./docker/shortcut_generator.sh ./
RUN ./shortcut_generator.sh
In a way, I have solved the issue, but I can't help but wonder if someone more knowledgeable on Dockerfile syntax than me could inline that snippet in the Dockerfile.

Bash script for setting up mac keeps skipping commands or simply prints to the console without executing lines

I've been trying to create a bash script that allows me to transfer my existing dev setup to a brand new macbook.
I set up a bash script which is supposed to automate this process but for some reason when I call the script using curl, it doesnt seem to reliably run the whole thing and I cant figure out why that is. example of commands being printed to the console and note executed
If I were to manually enter each line into the terminal and execute, things work as expected however doing so defeats the purpose of the script.
I'll attach some screenshots of the terminal output so you can see the exact issues I'm facing and at which point it behaves oddly.
I've had to run the script a few times to get it to execute the skipped steps but it would be good to understand why certain steps are getting missed. Here's a link to my gist containing the script. Would appreciate any suggestions for improvements or explantations for the behaviour I'm seeing.
Things I have tried that havent resolved my issue:
Splitting the script into two smaller scripts
Erasing my mac and running the script again (done this several times)
Adding sleep 5 between each command
edit: this is how I'm running the script
sudo curl -Lks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/curtis-j-campbell/b695513a44393c3a5084c011c6d0c890/raw | /bin/bash
Thanks in advance
It appears that everything after brew install git is being echoed. That suggests that something in that command is copying its stdin to stdout, so it's processing the rest of the script. Change that line to
brew install git </dev/null
so it won't read the script as its stdin.
Also, you don't need to run curl under sudo. If you need privileges to install the program, you should run bash as the superuser, not curl.
curl -Lks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/curtis-j-campbell/b695513a44393c3a5084c011c6d0c890/raw | sudo /bin/bash

How to run SDKMAN on shell script

I am trying to run sdkman on a shell script that I call run.sh. This is what the inside of the shell script looks like:
sdk use java 8.0.302-open
When I run the command in a terminal, it works. But when I run it in a shell script, I get this error:
run.sh: 1: sdk: not found
Anyone knows how to fix this?
I fixed it for me; Although this may not work for others.
I placed #!/bin/bash at the top of the shell script, and then added this after it:
source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"
Then my shell script was able to be ran using:
./run.sh
sdkman was able to work this time.

Create a shell script to run in bash in OSX

WARNING! Getting pretty basic here guys...
I have a rather elaborate shell script that I wish to create, but am haveing difficulty with the most basic of commands so am struggling to get going.
I want to create a .sh file that I can simply run using BASH -
If I place just CD in the file and run in BASH nothing happens, whereas running CD from the terminal obv. gets me home.
Could someone shed some light on this please... I am running OSX
thanks
When you run a script you spawn a new sub-shell, your cd works in that and then you exit back to your orginal shell and your old present work directory - just as thought the cd never happened. If you want to short cut cds use a alias or a function. Something like:
go_dev() {
cd /my/long/path/to/dev/env/
}
or
alias go_dev='cd /my/long/path/to/dev/env/'

Activating a VirtualEnv using a shell script doesn't seem to work

I tried activating a VirtualEnv through a shell script like the one below but it doesn't seem to work,
#!/bin/sh
source ~/.virtualenvs/pinax-env/bin/activate
I get the following error
$ sh virtualenv_activate.sh
virtualenv_activate.sh: 2: source: not found
but if I enter the same command on terminal it seems to work
$ source ~/.virtualenvs/pinax-env/bin/activate
(pinax-env)gautam#Aspirebuntu:$
So I changed the shell script to
#!/bin/bash
source ~/.virtualenvs/pinax-env/bin/activate
as suggested and used
$ bash virtualenv_activate.sh
gautam#Aspirebuntu:$
to run the script .
That doesn't throw an error but neither does that activate the virtual env
So any suggestion on how to solve this problem ?
PS : I am using Ubuntu 11.04
TLDR
Must run the .sh script with source instead of the script solely
source your-script.sh
and not
your-script.sh
Details
sh is not the same as bash (although some systems simply link sh to bash, so running sh actually runs bash). You can think of sh as a watered down version of bash. One thing that bash has that sh does not is the "source" command. This is why you're getting that error... source runs fine in your bash shell. But when you start your script using sh, you run the script in an shell in a subprocess. Since that script is running in sh, "source" is not found.
The solution is to run the script in bash instead. Change the first line to...
#!/bin/bash
Then run with...
./virtualenv_activate.sh
...or...
/bin/bash virtualenv_activate.sh
Edit:
If you want the activation of the virtualenv to change the shell that you call the script from, you need to use the "source" or "dot operator". This ensures that the script is run in the current shell (and therefore changes the current environment)...
source virtualenv_activate.sh
...or...
. virtualenv_activate.sh
As a side note, this is why virtualenv always says you need to use "source" to run it's activate script.
source is an builtin shell command in bash, and is not available in sh. If i remember correctly then virtual env does a lot of path and environment variables manipulation. Even running it as bash virtualenv_blah.sh wont work since this will simply create the environment inside the sub-shell.
Try . virtualenv_activate.sh or source virtualenv_activate.sh this basically gets the script to run in your current environment and all the environment variables modified by virtualenv's activate will be available.
HTH.
Edit: Here is a link that might help - http://ss64.com/bash/period.html
On Mac OS X your proposals seems not working.
I have done it this way. I'am not very happy with solution, but share it anyway here and hope, that maybe somebody will suggest the better one:
In activate.sh I have
echo 'source /Users/andi/.virtualenvs/data_science/bin/activate'
I give execution permissions by: chmod +x activate.sh
And I execute this way:
`./activate.sh`
Notice that there are paranthesis in form of ASCII code 96 = ` ( Grave accent )
For me best way work as below.
Create start-my-py-software.sh and pest below code
#!/bin/bash
source "/home/snippetbucket.com/source/AIML-Server-CloudPlatform/bin/activate"
python --version
python /home/snippetbucket.com/source/AIML-Server-CloudPlatform/main.py
Give file permission to run like below.
chmod +x start-my-py-software.sh
Now run like below
.start-my-py-software.sh
and that's it, start my python based server or any other code.
ubuntu #18.0
In my case, Ubuntu 16.04, the methods above didn't worked well or it needs much works.
I just made a link of 'activate' script file and copy it to home folder(or $PATH accessible folder) and renamed it simple one like 'actai'.
Then in a terminal, just call 'source actai'. It worked!

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