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I would like to refer to my previous post here: Autostarting a python script whenever it crashes to restart two python scripts on my raspberry pi (Stretch OS) if they crash.

The code of the shell script called constantrun.sh is as follows:

#!/bin/sh

PYTHONPATH=/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
COMMAND1=python /home/pi/project/script1.py
COMMAND2=python /home/pi/project/script2.py

rm -f COMMAND1_failed; ("$COMMAND1[@]"; touch COMMAND1_failed)&
rm -f COMMAND2_failed; ("$COMMAND2[@]"; touch COMMAND2_failed)&

while true
do
 if [ -e COMMAND1_failed ]
 then
 # Restart Command1
 rm -f COMMAND1_failed; ("$COMMAND1[@]"; touch COMMAND1_failed)&
 fi
 if [ -e COMMAND2_failed ]
 then
 # Restart Command2
 rm -f COMMAND2_failed; ("$COMMAND2[@]"; touch COMMAND2_failed)&
 fi

 sleep 60
done

I ran the following commands in terminal:

sudo chmod +x constantrun.sh # to make the script executable

I then gave permission to my python scripts e.g. chmod +x /home/pi/project/script1.py

Next, to initialise the script, I used:

sudo sh constantrun.sh 

However, I got the following error messages:

/usr/bin/env: ‘pythonr’: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/env: ‘pythonr’: No such file or directory
constantrun.sh: 7: constantrun.sh: Bad substitution
constantrun.sh: 8: constantrun.sh: Bad substitution

How can I resolve these errors?

Problems with r are usually caused by using a Windows editor. Check your python scripts. The assignments to the command variables contain space. You use array syntax to refer to them, but don't define them as arrays. For PYTHONPATH to be useful, it must be exported.

There is a much simpler solution for this:

#!/bin/sh

export PYTHONPATH=/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
COMMAND1="python /home/pi/project/script1.py"
COMMAND2="python /home/pi/project/script2.py"

(while true; do $COMMAND1; done &)
(while true; do $COMMAND2; done &)

I think there are two important issues here:

First: You have to differentiate between the location of your python executable, and the location of the lib site-packages.

Your python site-packages are here:

/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

But your executables are here:

/usr/bin

When you ran the command which python it told you that the executables are in /usr/bin

Your $PATH environment variable should contain paths that have executable files i.e.

$ echo $PATH /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/User/bin

If your executable is in another location other than your path, and you don't want to necessarily add that location to your path, then you can just create symbolic link. For example:

ln -s /path/to/executable /usr/bin/executable

Second: You had created your pythons in Windows, then you moved the scripts to Linux environment, probably your scripts contains CR characters, or dos breaks. You can clean the scripts from the CR characters as follows:

vi +':wq ++ff=unix' script1.py
vi +':wq ++ff=unix' script2.py

Or simply, open the scripts "script1.py", and "script2.py" in emacs and then save them again. This will remove the CR characters automatically.