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Terminal - sudo: ./script: command not found

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blasetheodore

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(Mods please move this if its better suited elsewhere)

I've googled this to no avail.

I have a file (no extension) which I was instructed to run with:

sudo ./file

However doing so gives me

sudo: ./file: command not found

I'm not too terminal savvy, but I tried switching to bash, and ran it again with the same error.
I re-installed the BSD components, but had no luck.
sudo ls or sudo cd work fine.
The file itself is in the ~/ directory.

echo $PATH
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Anyone know what could cause this?

Thanks,
Blase
 
blasetheodore said:
(Mods please move this if its better suited elsewhere)

I've googled this to no avail.

I have a file (no extension) which I was instructed to run with:

sudo ./file

However doing so gives me

sudo: ./file: command not found

I'm not too terminal savvy, but I tried switching to bash, and ran it again with the same error.
I re-installed the BSD components, but had no luck.
sudo ls or sudo cd work fine.
The file itself is in the ~/ directory.

echo $PATH
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Anyone know what could cause this?

Thanks,
Blase
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First you need to check if you can execute the file using ls -l file.
See the permissions and run the file by doing ./file.

That's it. If you have any question, please post the output of your terminal and I'll try to help.
--
Emerson Takahashi
 
Thanks aristobrat & setatakahashi!

Yeah, that fixed it.

Thanks guys, that was a bigger deal than you'd imagine. On behalf of all us noobs who walk in here without a clue, thanks for being so courteous and helpful.

Take care,
Blase
 
blasetheodore said:
Yeah, that fixed it.

Thanks guys, that was a bigger deal than you'd imagine. On behalf of all us noobs who walk in here without a clue, thanks for being so courteous and helpful.

Take care,
Blase
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No problem 😱 .

I figured out because you said: "I have a file (no extension) which *I was instructed* to run with".
 
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