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Why do I have to use sh to execute scripts from CD/DVD media?

I hit again on this strange behaviour of the system. I'm running Debian 6.0.6 and had quite some troubles executing a script directly from CD/DVD. Finally I had to use: sh /media/cdrom/command to ...
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Calling java from Bash: “Cannot execute binary file”

I have this simple Bash script: #!/bin/bash java -jar ClosureCompiler/compiler.jar --js ../src/typescript.js --js ../src/ts-compiler.js --js_output_file TSCompiler.js I'm getting this error when I ...
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place the aliased version of an existing command in /usr/bin/

I use Vim a lot, and I know how I can start vim in insert mode. So I have an alias named vii in my .bash_aliases file. On other hand I use Git a lot too, and I have this line in my .gitconfig: ...
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File not found for file which is there [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: “No such file or directory” lies on Optware installed binaries I am currently trying to get some piece of hardware to work on an embedded device. One part of ...
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Why can't root execute when executable bits are not set?

root user can write to a file even if its write permissions are not set. root user can read a file even if its read permissions are not set. root user can cd into a directory even if its execute ...
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How to find executable filetypes?

I want to find file types that are executable from the kernel's point of view. As far as I know all the executable files on Linux are ELF files. Thus I tried the following: find * | file | grep ELF ...
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What determines the path where the system searches for a file?

I am trying to get npm to work. In the process, I seem to have two versions of it installed: A corrupt one installed in ~/bin, and another I just compiled and ran make install to put it in ...
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Is it safe to remove a script file from within that script?

Imagine I have a script foo. It should be run once when the user logs in and isn't needed after a successful run. My question: Is it safe to remove the script file from within the script? E.g.: ...
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“No such file or directory” when I clearly see the file listed with correct permissions [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Getting “Not found” message when running a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system Ok I feel like I'm having some sort of brain fade moment, please help me out. I ...
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“Permission denied” when starting binary despite “rwx” priviledge

I am trying to run the statistics software Stata 11 on Ubuntu 11.10. as a regular user and I get the following error message: bash: xstata: Permission denied The user priviledges seem ok to me as a ...
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How do I install multiple java command-line programs?

I have a bunch of java command-line programs I've written and would like to install for all users. Building with NetBeans, I get a /dist directory which contains myprog1.jar and a /libs directory ...
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How do I clear Bash's cache of paths to executables?

When I execute a program without specifying the full path to the executable, and Bash must search the directories in $PATH to find the binary, it seems that Bash remembers the path in some sort of ...
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./executable: cannot execute binary file

I have a script that works well when I ssh to the server to execute it myself, but has problems when Hudson, a continuous integration server, runs it. I am automating tests on an embedded linux ...