perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Sun Jun 5 19:55:00 GMT 2005
Volker Quetschke wrote:
> $ test -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" && echo "executable"
> executable
coreutils have special logic for binaries with .exe suffix, which is why
this works.
> $ perl -e 'if ( ! -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" ) {print "not
> executable";}'
> not executable
Technically the file is not executable:
> $ id -a
> uid=1001(q) gid=513(none)
> groups=0(root),513(none),544(Administratoren),545(Benutzer)
>
> Here are some informations about the file:
>
> $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe
> -rwx------+ 1 Administratoren none 254976 Nov 10 2003
> /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe*
The permissions on the file indicate that it is only executable by the
owner (Administratoren) which is not the account you are running the
command from. If you add +x for the group or chown the file it should
work.
Brian
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