USB permissions question

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2019-05-18 10:07, Richard Kimber wrote:
> If I create a script on a USB stick plugged into my system it's
> permissions are:
> -rw-r--r--

Your problem is almost certainly that your USB is FAT-32 formatted.  
You're not going to be able to do much with that unless you reformat it. 
  HOWEVER... you *can* cheat.  Whatever language your script is written 
in (bash, Ruby, Python, whatever) is written with -- duh -- that 
language.  So, to wit:
ruby /path/to/usb/script.rb

And lo!  It'll execute just ducky.

> If I try to make it executable with chmod u+x nothing happens, so I
> can't run it.
> 
> How can I get scripts and programs to run from a USB stick? Is there a
> handy guide somewhere?
> 
> I tried the advice on
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/17540/how-do-i-set-executable-permissions-on-a-removable-drive
> but "sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart" did not complete and return the
> command prompt, so I'm not clear where to go from here.
> 
> - Richard.
> --
> Richard Kimber