The permission bit in a file mode that allows a file to be run as a program. Also, questions related the format of program files, and to locating and executing program files.
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How to know the path of a running executable?
I am working on a Linux server, and I running different jobs on different node.
However, when compiling my program, I didn't set their specific name, so they are all a.out
Now I found one of the ...
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autocomplete in noexec mounted drive
I noticed that bash won't let me tab-complete executable files in a noexec file system. I'm assuming that in order for it to actually auto-complete, the file has to be within the PATH and at least ...
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How to change processes from background to foreground and suspend and kill?
So i am doing a problem for a class where i need to execute a command and then suspend as well as execute another process in the background, however i am having trouble trying to be able to figure out ...
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Unable to run executable on secondary machine
My primary computer can run a program (hc12-coff-gcc) located in the usr/local/bin directory. My secondary computer cannot run the same program.
the usr/local/bin directory is in the PATH for both ...
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executable files to normal files via terminal CentOS7
Today I copied some files from the shared folder (Host is a Win7) to my VM ( Guest is a CentOS7). I did this with root permissions. Then I copied th files to my apache location
/var/www/html/test
I ...
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How can I extract Signatures data from a Windows `exe` file under Linux using cli
If you go to the VirusTotal link , there is a tab called file info(I think; mine is dutch). You'll see a header called
"Authenticode signature block and FileVersionInfo properties"
I want to ...
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Why doesn't `strip` remove section headers from ELF executables?
A minimal ELF executable only requires the ELF header and at least one program header in order to be functional. However, when I run strip on a short executable, it decides not to throw out the ...
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Check last time .sh file used
When you run ./myscript.sh is that considered as "access" time?
I need to know the last time a script was run, but I'm not sure if this counts as mtime, ctime or atime (differences described here).
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How to install executables
I sometimes run into software that is not offered in .deb or .rpm but only as an executable.
For example Visual Studio Code, WebStorm or Kerbal Space Programm.
For this question, I will take Visual ...
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Bash fails to run executable with No such file or directory [duplicate]
I have an executable copied to an Ubuntu 14.04 AWS instance, and I:
chmod +x MyExe.bin
./MyExe.bin
And I get:
-bash: ./MyExe.bin: No such file or directory
This is strange because:
The file is ...
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Linux: How to mount a drive from command line
I normally mount my drives just by opening it from filesystem. It automatically mount when I open/click on a drive. But I wanted to mount a drive from command line. I did ran this command
sudo mount ...
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Which of /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl should be used?
If I have both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl available on a system, which one should I use?
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Can not run executable files from a mounted drive
I have downloaded eclipse and rubymine and previously placed in home folder. Then I used to open both programs by double clicking on eclipse.sh and rubymine.sh.
Now I moved these two folders in a ...
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Executable file isn't “really there” after rsync [duplicate]
I am issuing the following rsync command (obfuscating the exact path & host), which should copy two binaries:
rsync -e "ssh -p 443" -a --info=progress2 -z user@remote:/srv/cgi-bin/ .
...
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1answer
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File does exist but won't execute [duplicate]
I have a file that does exist but won't execute. It says : "No such file or directory".
This file is created by a script while creating a "custom toolchain" to compile native libraries for Android ...
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How is Mono magical?
I'm learning C#, so I made a little C# program that says Hello, World!, then compiled it with mono-csc and ran it with mono:
$ mono-csc Hello.cs
$ mono Hello.exe
Hello, World!
I noticed that when I ...
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Difference between /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin [duplicate]
What is the difference between /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin?
Why are there both directories and why do some executable programs exist in both directories?
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Where is the nginx executable on Debian? [closed]
I've installed the nginx-light package on debian, but I can't find the executable. It's not in /usr/bin, like it says on the official nginx website. Where is it, then?
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Equivalent to OS X's py2app and Windows's py2exe?
I'm writing an application in Python. I don't expect my end users to be particularly tech-savvy, so I'd like to package it up like a familiar native executable.
For OS X, that means running it ...
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How can I add my program to system program list (Ubuntu 14.04)? [duplicate]
I made a my program in c++ and generated its executable but every time I need to use my program I need to change my directory to the folder and then execute it.
How do I make my program run like an ...
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Handling duplicate programs names bash
I'm wondering if $PATH cascades entries. You'll all need to take a leap of faith with me here, but here it goes.
Let's say we have a Java executable at /usr/bin/java but this version is very old and ...
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Installing Wine 1.8 on Debian not working
I followed this link http://tecadmin.net/install-wine-on-ubuntu-and-debian/# to install Wine on Debian 7.9 Wheezy but to no avail. When I reached step sudo ./configure --enable-win64 it asked for ...
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Aardvark Control Center wants TLS/SSE2 Library
Environment:
CentOS 7.1 64-bit using Intel i7-4771
Gnome 3 shell
I downloaded the Aardvark Control Center (Total Phase) and tried to execute the controlctr bash file, however I received the error ...
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Remote app - bash: cannot execute binary file [duplicate]
I have an app in a remote Linux machine. I am trying to execute the app via ssh, but I get the error:
bash: /app: cannot execute binary file
Why is this happening? The application works fine in the ...
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The type command can't distinguish between an executable command and a shell script
So I was reading the book The Linux Command Line, and it says that commands are of four types:
(1) executable programs
(2) shell builtins
(3) shell functions (shell scripts)
(4) ...
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setuid example from Wikipedia: 4700
I was reading about setuid on Wikipedia. One of the examples goes as follows:
4700
SUID on an executable file owned by "root"
A user named "tails" attempts to execute the file. The file ...
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a.out - Data segment and text segment are contiguous iff text segment is not shared. Why is this so?
I was reading the man page for the ancient a.out format (located here), trying to understand the evolution of Unix executable formats. I was wondering about something. The man page says that if the ...
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auditctl comm vs. exe
I was looking at Linux audit reports. Here is a log from ausearch.
time->Mon Nov 23 12:30:30 2015
type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1448281830.422:222556): proctitle=6D616E006175736561726368
...
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“No such file or directory” attempting to run executable [duplicate]
I'm trying to run a binary on my freshly-flashed Ubuntu box. The file exists, I have permissions to run it, but I'm getting "No such file or directory" error.
gkistner@gkistner-dt3:~/cx/_temp_dump$ ...
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arm-eabi-gcc: cannot execute binary file
I am trying to build a ROM from AOSP 5.1.1 specifically (Nexus 7 - grouper). However, a while ago I got stuck at this part while building the kernel.
The following command works fine: make ...
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“No such file” with ksh, but script runs with ksh -x?
I'm trying to execute a shell script on OpenBSD 5.7/amd64. Its a test script used to test a FOSS project. (OpenBSD is one of our targets because it provides an ancient compiler out of the box).
When ...
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2answers
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How run Linux application from a mounted Windows disk?
I have dual-boot operating system, Ubuntu and Windows 7. The problem is I can't install some Linux application on my Linux because considering the disk space. I always regret to myself why I allocated ...
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link to an executable and remove some parameters
I currently am using Xamarin Studio, which has a bug in this version. It adds 2 parameters to an executable, which causes the output to flood with error messages, slowing down the build time from a ...
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No such file or Directory, even if file present and executable [duplicate]
I have two machines, and I have installed the exact same packages on both machines.
On one machine everything is working perfectly fine. But on another machine, there is at least one file where its ...
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1answer
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*.desktop nor symlink works (just for this one file) - Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon
I have this desktop entry:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=dummy
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/xyz/Software/Test/ico.png
Exec= /home/xyz/Software/Test/start
which is supposed to execute file ...
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Why does OS X `install` errors on redirected input when the same version of `install` on linux works fine?
I would like to use install command in order to create a new executable file with pre-populated content (e.g. with single pwd command in it).
So I've extended this example which creates a new empty ...
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executable bit on files created by vim
Is there any setting for vim create new files with full permissions? that is falling just under the umask restrictions, and only on files created by vim. It shouldn't modify the bits of an already ...
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A program doesn't work when invoked through a symbolic link
I have an executable paraview in the directory ~/software/Para/bin/ and
I want to create a soft link in my home directory. I have tried like this but could not succeed.
sudo ln -s ...
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1answer
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Is my compilation false?
I thought my compliation was okay because no errors were printed out, yet when I try to run the executable, he tells me that it's unreachable...
coppan12@b048-08:~$ gcc -Wall prog.c -o prog
...
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1answer
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VS Code not working on Elementary OS
I have downloaded VS Code on Elementary OS, and I followed the setup instruction of Setting up Visual Studio Code on linux.
The executable file "code" seems to be unknown, it is not opening, Any ...
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direct execution of python scripts
I have noticed that sometimes python scripts are not being started directly, ie /foo/bar.py, but rather from a shell script, which does nothing else than /usr/bin/python -O /foo/bar.py $@
One such ...
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Make a command to remove NetworkManager connections
I’m working in a manufacturing company (small one) and one of our clients required a test using a Linux (Ubuntu) computer, we are testing some wi-fi modules. the test is simple. beforehand: Powering ...
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How to use ln -s to create a command line shortcut?
I have an sh file that I would like to be able to open from the terminal at any time. I would like to type "studio" into the terminal, and have android studio open
I recall using ln -s to do this, ...
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How does a shell execute a program?
If I compile a program using gcc, and try to execute it from the bash shell, what is the exact sequence of steps followed by bash to execute it ?
I know fork(), execve(), loader, dynamic linker (and ...
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How to use BlueZ tools? [closed]
I successfully compiled bluez-libs-3.36 and bluez-utils-3.36, and got the programs sdptool,hcitool and hciconfig. I copied them to my device and exectued chmod a+x on all three of them. But if I try ...
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strace | Who's making syscalls ? | Where are the instructions?
I've been told that strace is used to track all the system calls made while running an application.
I see that there are a lot of system calls made even before the first printf ( now write ) call. ...
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Why and how are some shared libraries runnable, as though they are executables?
On 32-bit Linux systems, invoking this
$ /lib/libc.so.6
and on 64-bit systems this
$ /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
in a shell, provides an output like this:
GNU C Library stable release ...
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Can't run c program in other partition
I'm in dual boot with Windows, and i've created a shared ntfs partition.
I' ve cloned a project from github, use make to compile it but seems it isn't recognized as runnable. I've added the right ...
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1answer
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cannot execute binary file
I have a application that gives the error:
nhsupsserver: cannot execute binary file
I read some texts and the most speak about an architecture mismatch and executable file.
The line that ...
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“Illegal instruction” on a static MIPS binary
On my MIPS box I'm trying to run a program. I use a cross compiler for mips. When I run my program, I'm getting
Illegal instruction
I pulled of one binary from it, called cputest. It basically ...
