Re: executable not found

[Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>]

On October 6, 2019 7:04:22 PM UTC, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>     I was trying to fire up an old backup of an executable I wrote:  
>'ls' shows the current version and the backup:
>
>...
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 30152 2016-12-17/12:18:46 movemouse,1*
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 10544 2016-12-17/12:57:53 movemouse*
>...
>
>     However zsh doesn't want to run it tho both are executable:
>
>$ movemouse,1
>zsh: command not found: movemouse,1
>
>     Current directory is on my path:
>
>PATH=".:/aWorking/Zsh/System:/aWorking/Bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
>
>     So current directory should be searched.  I can't figure out why 
>zsh isn't finding it.  The recent version 'movemouse' is found fine.  
>Copying 'movemouse,1' to another name somewhere else on the path made
>no 
>difference.  But there is this:
>
>movemouse,1:
>CONTENT: EXECUTABLE BINARY application/x-executable; charset=binary:
>
>movemouse:
>CONTENT: EXECUTABLE LIBRARY application/x-sharedlib; charset=binary:
>
>     Is that the issue?  Can anything obvious be done?  Do I need to 
>rebuild 'movemouse,1'?  Yet zsh should find it anyway, no?
>
>     Trying:
>
>$exec ./movemouse,1
>
>     crashed the terminal as did:
>
>$exec ./movemouse

I think that executable's interpreter couldn't be found.

In case of native executable (i.e not a script), its linked libc couldn't be found. Please check with `ldd'
-- 
Danh