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From: | Chet Ramey |
Subject: | Re: Inapplicable "No such file or directory" Message |
Date: | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:36:31 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 |
Andrew Piziali wrote:
uname output: Linux elijah2 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Bash Version: 2.05b Patch Level: 0 Release Status: release Description: If bash is unable to create a file (say "abc") using the ">" I/O redirection operator because the current working directory is not writable, it reports the message: bash: abc: No such file or directory This is very misleading and cost me several hours of work, trying to diagnose a shell program problem.
I get this message when using the /bin/bash shipped by Red Hat with the same kernel version you're using on RH 8.0. When I build a version of bash-2.05b myself on the same system, the error message is "Permission Denied". I don't know how Red Hat built /bin/bash, but I advise you to build your own copy if this issue is important to you. Chet
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