There is not actually an asterisk at the end of this file name; the -F flag to ls presents this to help identify executable files.
The "No such file" error likely originates from a shared library this particular binary is trying to call. try ldd linbpq -wes On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:27 PM Jason Barnett <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
