Turn shell script into double-click executable?

[Agent-X]

I've created some shell scripts. I would like to turn them into double-click executables. At the moment, when I click on them, they open a text editor. Instead of doing that, I want them to load.

At the moment, I have to open terminal, go into the directory that holds one of the scripts, and then I have to use "bash scriptname"

I don't really like doing this over, and over, and over again, so I'm hoping someone knows the answer to this.

For extra information, I'm using Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

[likwid]

You have to make them executable, which is done with something like this:

chmod 755 scriptname

or

chmod +x scriptname

[Agent-X]

Thank you.

I didn't notice turning the script into an executable this way wouldn't open a terminal.

I had been using some type of right-click and then clicking "run in terminal."
However, I did not like this because it closed out the terminal window.

I'm curious as to whether there is a way to make it double-clickable but yet show what is happening in terminal, while not having the terminal close when the script is done installing. I want this, because I want to know what installed correctly and what did not.

Is there a way?

Anyway, isn't there some kind of command to create a log? Could I do that instead?

[likwid]

You could run a read command that had a forever timeout, that waited for you to hit some key to quit, or you could redirect STDERR or OUT to a logfile.