Re: Inapplicable "No such file or directory" Message

[Chet Ramey]

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