[PLUG] File is there, but not there?

Johnathan Mantey manteyjg at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 21:22:59 UTC 2020


We don't know what your 'll' alias does.
Perhaps you should use a non-alias 'ls' with your switches expressed
explicitly, and then post the output.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:24 PM Jason Barnett <jason.barnett71 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is an asterisk at the end of the file name. There is no file named
> "linbpq", but there is a file named "linbpq*".
> try ./linbpq*
>
> If this was not intentional, you can rename it to linbpq with the command
> "mv linbpq\* linbpq", then your command ./linbpq should work.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:56 AM Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am confused. I am trying to run an executable file, but it says it is
> not
> > there.
> >
> > $ ll
> > total 3384
> > drwxrwxr-x 3 michael michael    4096 Jan 28 11:43 ./
> > drwxrwxr-x 5 michael michael    4096 Jan 28 11:43 ../
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael michael     767 Jan 28 11:43 bpq32.cfg
> > drwxrwxr-x 2 michael michael    4096 Jan 28 11:43 HTML/
> > -rwxrwxr-x 1 michael michael 3438660 Jan 28 05:16 linbpq*
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael michael    4877 Jan 28 11:43 linmail.cfg
> >
> > $ ./linbpq
> > -bash: ./linbpq: No such file or directory
> >
> > When I list files, it is clearly there, but trying to run it gets the No
> > Such File error.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
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