Permission denied from Bitbucket pipeline

Question

I am trying to use the bitbucket pipeline to upload my build apk to hockey app but when i try to run my script i get

bash: ./deploy-hockey-dev.sh: Permission denied

this is the deploy-hockey-dev.sh :

#!/bin/sh

# upload apk to hockey app
curl \
-F "status=2" \
-F "notify=0" \
-F "ipa=@app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk" \
-H "X-HockeyAppToken: myToken" \
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/api/2/apps/upload

Does any one know what the problem here is ?

Answer 1

The issue is that the file was not given the correct execution permissions before it was checked into BitBucket.

If you are developing locally in a unix environment, you would normally set execute permissions (ie. chmod 755) on the script file so you can test it locally before committing. With this approach you would not experience the permission denied error in pipeline build when you check it in.

However, sometimes we are authoring our scripts on Windows without a unix emulator, so we can only test our scripts in a pipeline environment. Even though Windows does not support execute permissions in its file system, we can still use git to show and set these execute permissions.

cd <dir-with-shell-scripts>
git ls-files --stage                   # show file permissions (last 3 digits of first number)
git update-index --chmod=+x <files>    # set execute permissions

Commit the updated files as per your normal process.

Answer 2

This looks like Linux permissions problem to me rather than programming. Check if the script has executable permission (the x bit in ls -l). You can consult chmod (man chmod) or the Internet for details how Linux permissions work, as I believe that is offtopic for this site.

Answer 3

This worked for me. In your code terminal, you need to update the permissions for the files to be executable (x in them)

chmod +x path/to/file 

Then commit and push. The pipeline should pass for this issue