How to make it so bash runs instead of asking where to run upon selection from file navigator

Question

When I double-click on bash files on Linux Mint a pop-up appears querying whether I want to run in terminal, display, run, or cancel. I was wondering, how do I make it so for this particular bash file it runs without this pop-up (preferably without the presentation of the terminal). Any help would be much appreciated!

Solution

You can't do it with the bash script directly, you will need to create a .desktop file for it instead. For example, if your bash script is saved as /home/cenoc/bin/script.sh, create a file called script.desktop with the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=My script
Comment=Describe your script here
Exec=/home/cenoc/bin/script.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Then, double click on script.desktop and your script should be executed.

Comments

[Randy Rakestraw]

I would understand the security fear, but I just want a layman user to be able to come up to this and double click without having something pop-up like this complicating the arrangement. I could always write-up and compile something to do what the bash file is doing, but was hoping I can just use the bash file and change the icon.

[WeeBo]

Well it depends on what file manager you're using as well. Some will have different behaviour. Example for caja, native in Mint afaik. Go to Edit>Preferences>Behaviour Under Executable text files you have 3 options. Select which one you need. The first option should work for your case. Should also work in nemo as well.