“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 s         


        

Answer 1

I had the same error message when trying to run a Python script -- this was not @Warpspace's intended use case (see other comments), but this was among the top hits to my search, so maybe somebody will find it useful.

In my case it was the DOS line endings (\r\n instead of \n) that the shebang line (#!/usr/bin/env python) would trip over. A simple dos2unix myfile.py fixed it.

Answer 2

This error may also occur if trying to run a script and the shebang is misspelled. Make sure it reads #!/bin/sh, #!/bin/bash, or whichever interpreter you're using.

Answer 3

I found my solution for my Ubuntu 18 here.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Then:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386

Answer 4

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 5

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 

Answer 6

Below command worked on 16.4 Ubuntu

This issue comes when your .sh file is corrupt or not formatted as per unix protocols.

dos2unix converts the .sh file to Unix format!

sudo apt-get install dos2unix -y
dos2unix test.sh
sudo chmod u+x test.sh 
sudo ./test.sh