"No such file or directory" but it exists "No such file or directory" but it exists shell shell

"No such file or directory" but it exists


This error can mean that ./arm-mingw32ce-g++ doesn't exist (but it does), or that it exists and is a dynamically linked executable recognized by the kernel but whose dynamic loader is not available. You can see what dynamic loader is required by running ldd /arm-mingw32ce-g++; anything marked not found is the dynamic loader or a library that you need to install.

If you're trying to run a 32-bit binary on an amd64 installation:


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.


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.