“No such file or directory” but it exists

Question

I simply want to run an executable from the command line, ./arm-mingw32ce-g++, but then I get the error message,

bash: ./arm-mingw32ce-g++: No such file or directory

I'm running Ubuntu Linux 10.10. ls -l lists

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  433308 2010-10-16 21:32 arm-mingw32ce-g++

Using sudo (sudo ./arm-mingw32ce-g++) gives

sudo: unable to execute ./arm-mingw32ce-g++: No such file or directory

I have no idea why the OS can't even see the file when it's there. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I had the same problem with a file that I've created on my mac. If I try to run it in a shell with ./filename I got the file not found error message. I think that something was wrong with the file.

what I've done:

open a ssh session to the server
cat filename
copy the output to the clipboard
rm filename
touch filename
vi filename
i for insert mode
paste the content from the clipboard
ESC to end insert mode
:wq!

This worked for me.

Answer 2

I faced this error when I was trying to build Selenium source on Ubuntu. The simple shell script with correct shebang was not able to run even after I had all pre-requisites covered.

file file-name # helped me in understanding that CRLF ending were present in the file.

I opened the file in Vim and I could see that just because I once edited this file on a Windows machine, it was in DOS format. I converted the file to Unix format with below command:

dos2unix filename # actually helped me and things were fine.

I hope that we should take care whenever we edit files across platforms we should take care for the file formats as well.

Answer 3

I got this error “No such file or directory” but it exists because my file was created in Windows and I tried to run it on Ubuntu and the file contained invalid 15\r where ever a new line was there. I just created a new file truncating unwanted stuff

sleep: invalid time interval ‘15\r’
Try 'sleep --help' for more information.
script.sh: 5: script.sh: /opt/ag/cont: not found
script.sh: 6: script.sh: /opt/ag/cont: not found
root@Ubuntu14:/home/abc12/Desktop# vi script.sh 
root@Ubuntu14:/home/abc12/Desktop# od -c script.sh 
0000000   #   !   /   u   s   r   /   b   i   n   /   e   n   v       b
0000020   a   s   h  \r  \n   w   g   e   t       h   t   t   p   :   /

0000400   :   4   1   2   0   /  \r  \n
0000410
root@Ubuntu14:/home/abc12/Desktop# tr -d \\015 < script.sh > script.sh.fixed
root@Ubuntu14:/home/abc12/Desktop# od -c script.sh.fixed 
0000000   #   !   /   u   s   r   /   b   i   n   /   e   n   v       b
0000020   a   s   h  \n   w   g   e   t       h   t   t   p   :   /   /

0000400   /  \n
0000402
root@Ubuntu14:/home/abc12/Desktop# sh -x script.sh.fixed