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I have some route add commands to run on Ubuntu. It works when I copy the command and paste it on the terminal. But I've tried to create a bash script which looks something like this 

#!/bin/bash

sudo route add -net 'someIp' netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 'anotherIp' 
sudo route add -net 'someOtherIp' netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 'anotherIp'

But when I run it. the output is: 

SIOCADDRT: Dispositivo inexistente

which can be translated to SIOCADDRT: device does not exist

I've run chmod +x on the file and tried running the script with sudo but it did not work.

What am I missing?

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  • Can you please make sure that you are not trying to add an already existent route. SIOCADDRT: device does not exist SIOC: Serial Input Output Controller. ADD: ADD (addition). RT: RouTe (routing ip). File exists – Routing is already configured so delete wrong one and add the new one.
    – BANJOSA
    Jan 23 '20 at 12:00
  • That is probably the issue, because when I copy the commands and paste it, sometimes a warning shows up. But I still don't get why it does not add the missing routes when the script is running but it does get added when I copy the same commands and paste it on the terminal. Do you know why this happens?
    – Leonardo Meinerz Ramos
    Jan 23 '20 at 14:50
  • can you add the interface name after the command in the script and test it, please? EXAMPLE: sudo route add -net 'someIp' netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 'anotherIp' eth0
    – BANJOSA
    Jan 23 '20 at 17:06
  • It outputs the same result as before
    – Leonardo Meinerz Ramos
    Jan 23 '20 at 17:25
  • did you remove the already created rules before executing the script? Also, the rules that are being add shouldn´t overlap existing ones.
    – BANJOSA
    Jan 23 '20 at 17:30
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After a few days, I finally found the problem. At first, I hadn't added the #!/bin/bash to the script, but after I added it, it was still not working. Then I found this post(in Portuguese) explaining that the problem could be some invisible characters on the file, which makes sense because I had converted it from a .bat file manually. So I just had to run sed -i 's/\r$//' routes.sh and everything started working.

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