Running scala shell script : Nothing happens - scala

Question

If I run the below script (saved as jarAccessTest.sh, which is an executable file) in a command line, nothing happens:
#!/bin/sh
# exec scala -classpath "/usr/local/google/home/vvasuki/sanskritnlpjava/target/sanskritnlp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar " "$0" "$#"
exec scala "$0" "$#"
!#
# import sanskritnlp.transliteration._;
print "hello"
I just see no output. Nothing. Command prompt does not return either.
What is happening here? I have to type Ctrl+C to stop whatever is happening.
EDIT: Using scala 2.9 in ubuntu 14.04 : http://i.imgur.com/VMYKnUX.png

Answer 1

Your pre-packaged version of Scala is from a long time ago and a galaxy far, far away.
You'll do better to download the latest 2.11.6 from the website.
When the scala runner runs a script, it starts a compile server process. If that process is borked, you may have to kill it or run fsc -shutdown to ask it nicely to go away.
You can try adding the -nc option to your script to eliminate that factor, i.e., scala -nc says no compile daemon.
Finally, if you're just testing your library, it's more common to run scala -cp my.jar and experiment from the REPL. Or if you are using SBT, start the console from there.
Anonymous suggests adding: "They seriously let you type anything on here"
To which I'll append the advice from the other answer, to run fsc -verbose. And note that they threaten to stop supporting fsc because it has issues which are maddening when they occur. For that reason, I prefer scala -nc for brief testing and scalac -d script.jar script.scala where script is an App.

Answer 2

The problem on the original computer was never really explained, though it is pointed out that use of the '-nc' flag worked.
The original problem might with the compilation daemon's ability to open a port. From the man page for fsc:
The first time it is executed, the daemon is started automatically.
On subsequent runs, the same daemon can be reused, thus resulting in a faster compilation. The tool is especially effective when repeatedly
compiling with the same class paths, because the
compilation daemon can reuse a compiler instance.
One way to check if this is the problem is to run fsc on its own with the verbose flag. For example, make a script called hello.scala with
println("Hello")
in it, and run
fsc -verbose hello.scala
If this shows the compile server unable to connect, you've identified your problem. A first thing to try in that case would be to check that your hosts file is kosher.
(I had a similar problem, and this is what I found).

Answer 3

you have a few changes to do on your code, mainly on the # line which is not a comment in scala.
#!/bin/sh
# exec scala -classpath "/usr/local/google/home/vvasuki/sanskritnlpjava/target/sanskritnlp-1.0- SNAPSHOT.jar " "$0" "$#"
exec scala "$0" "$#"
!#
// import sanskritnlp.transliteration._;
print ("hello\n")