Linux executable file location

How to make a file executable in linux?

Aug 30, 2016 · 2 min read

Asked by Satyam

To give a little more context, I think that this question stems from the distinction between executable and non executable files on windows, characterized by the .exe extension.

In linux, every file can be an executable.

Let’s see what happens when you try to execute a file. First, we need to have a file. We can use the echo command and redirect its output to create a new file.

Note the lack of extension i n the filename. We could have named it hello.txt, or hello.sh, it’s entirely upto us, the extension mostly doesn’t matter. Unlike windows, you don’t need a special extension to make a file executable.

Now, we’ll execute the file.

Let’s go over what happened.

To execute a file all we need to do is enter the path of the file on the command prompt. We’ll also need execute permissions on the file, like to read a file we’d need read permissions. Note that setting or removing the execute permissions does not make a file executable or non-executable, but it just takes away or gives us the ability to execute it.

What exactly happens when we ‘execute’ a file is that the contents of the file are sent to the program located on the first line. In this case, it’s /bin/bash.
This means that all contents of the file are being sent to bash. So it’s as if you were typing those commands into the shell. Therefore, in the file we’ve created it ran the echo command.

Please note that there’s nothing special with ./, it just simply means ‘look for the file in the current directory’. It could have been any path, for example

And you could also have some other program handle the execution. For example, consider the following file in which I’ve set the first line to be the location of python binary, which I found via the command whereis python. It may be different on your system.

You could also set a .doc file’s permissions as executable, or a .jpg file. It’s perfectly legal. But when you try to execute those, their contents will be sent to shell to be parsed as shell commands. But they aren’t shell commands, so you’ll get an error.

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How To Find a File In Linux From the Command Line

Need to know how to find a file in Linux? Well, surprise, surprise, you’re going to need the find command in Linux to scour your directory or file system. The Linux find command can filter objects recursively using a simple conditional mechanism, and if you use the -exec flag, you’ll also be able to find a file in Linux straightaway and process it without needing to use another command.

Locate Linux Files by Their Name or Extension

Typical Linux Find Commands and Syntax

find command expressions look like this:

find command options starting/path expression

The options attribute controls the behavior and optimization method of the find process. The starting/path attribute defines the top-level directory where the find command in Linux begins the filtering process. The expression attribute controls the assessments that scour the directory tree to create output.

Let’s break down a Linux find command where we don’t just want Linux find file by name:

find -O3 -L /var/www/ -name «*.html»

It enables the top-level optimization (-O3) and permits find to follow symbolic links (-L). The find command in Linux searches through the whole directory hierarchy under /var/www/ for files that have .html on the end.

Basic Examples

1. find . -name thisfile.txt

If you need to know how to find a file in Linux called thisfile.txt, it will look for it in current and sub-directories.

2. find /home -name *.jpg

Look for all .jpg files in the /home and directories below it.

3. find . -type f -empty

Look for an empty file inside the current directory.

4. find /home -user randomperson-mtime 6 -iname «.db»

Look for all .db files (ignoring text case) that have been changed in the preceding 6 days by a user called randomperson.

Options and Optimization for Find Command for Linux

find is configured to ignore symbolic links (shortcut files) by default. If you’d like the find command to follow and show symbolic links, just add the -L option to the command, as we did in this example.

find can help Linux find file by name. The Linux find command enhances its approach to filtering so that performance is optimised. The user can find a file in Linux by selecting three stages of optimisation-O1, -O2, and -O3. -O1 is the standard setting and it causes find to filter according to filename before it runs any other tests.

-O2 filters by name and type of file before carrying on with more demanding filters to find a file in Linux. Level -O3 reorders all tests according to their relative expense and how likely they are to succeed.

• -O1 – (Default) filter based on file name first
• -O2 – File name first, then file-type
• -O3 – Allow find to automatically re-order the search based on efficient use of resources and likelihood of success
• -maxdepth X – Search this directory along with all sub-directories to a level of X
• -iname – Search while ignoring text case.
• -not – Only produce results that don’t match the test case
• -type f – Look for files
• -type d – Look for directories

Find Files by When They Were Modified

The Linux find command contains the ability to filter a directory hierarchy based on when the file was last modified:

find / -name «*jpg» -mtime 5

find /home/randomuser/ -name «*jpg» -mtime 4

The initial Linux find command pulls up a list of files in the whole system that end with the characters jpg and have been modified in the preceding 5 days. The next one filters randomuser’s home directory for files with names that end with the characters “conf” and have been modified in the preceding 4 days.

Use Grep to Find Files Based on Content

The find command in Linux is great but it can only filter the directory tree according to filename and meta data. To search files based on what they contain you’ll need a tool like grep. Take a look:

find . -type f -exec grep «forinstance» ‘<>‘ \; -print

This goes through every object in the current directory tree (.) that’s a file (-type f) and then runs grep ” forinstance ” for every file that matches, then prints them on the screen (-print). The curly braces (<>) are a placeholder for those results matched by the Linux find command. The <> go inside single quotes (‘) so that grep isn’t given a misshapen file name. The -exec command is ended with a semicolon (;), which also needs an escape (\;) so that it doesn’t end up being interpreted by the shell.

Before -exec was implemented, xargs would have been used to create the same kind of output:

find . -type f -print | xargs grep «forinstance»

How to Locate and Process Files Using the Find Command in Linux

The -exec option runs commands against every object that matches the find expression. Let’s see how that looks:

This filters all objects in the current directory tree (.) for files named rc.conf and runs the chmod o+r command to alter file permissions of the results that find returns.

The root directory of the Linux is where the commands that -exec runs are executed. Use -execdir to execute the command you want in the directory where the match is sitting, because this might be more secure and improve performance under certain circumstances.

The -exec or -execdir options will continue to run on their own, but if you’d like to see prompts before they do anything, swap out -exec -ok or -execdir for -okdir.

How To Manage Files Using Plesk?

Let’s say you have a website that’s all ready to go on your laptop/desktop and you’d like to use File Manager to upload it to the Plesk on Linux server:

1. On your machine, you’ll need to take the folder with all of your website’s files on it and add it to a compressed archive in one of the usual formats (ZIP, RAR, TAR, TGZ, or TAR.GZ).
2. In Plesk, go to Files, click the httpdocs folder to open it, click Upload, choose the archive file, and then click Open.
3. As soon as you’ve uploaded it, click in the checkbox you see alongside and then on Extract Files.

How to Edit Files in File Manager

File Manager lets you edit your website pages by default. To do this you can use:

• An HTML editor or a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” style of editor, which is a nice option because it adds the HTML tags for you. If you aren’t all that confident with HTML then this can be a helpful option.
• Code editor. When you open HTML files with this one you’ll be presented with text where the HTML syntax is highlighted. If you’re comfortable with adding HTML tags yourself then code editor is for you.
• Text editor. HTML files are opened as ordinary text with this one.

Your Plesk administrator may have already et up the Rich Editor extension, in which case you can use it for HTML file editing. Rich Editor works in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get fashion, just like Code Editor, although it’s better specced with features like a spellchecker for instance.

Here’s how to use File Manager to edit a file:

1. Put the cursor over the file and the line that corresponds with it will show a highlight.
2. Open the context menu for the file by clicking on it.
3. Click Edit in … Editor (this will vary depending on your chosen editor).

How to Change Permissions with File Manager

There are some web pages and files that you don’t necessarily want to share with the world, and that’s where altering their permissions settings can come in handy.

To achieve this, find the item you want to restrict Internet access for like this:

1. Place your cursor over it and wait for the highlight to appear as in the previous example.
2. Click on the file to open its context menu and do the same again on Change Permissions.
3. Make your change and then hit OK. If you’d like to find out more about how to look at and alter permissions in Setting File and Directory Access Permissions.

File Manager’s default approach is to change permissions in a non-recursive manner, so consequently, sub-files and directories don’t aren’t affected by the changed permissions of the higher-level directories they belong to. With Plesk for Linux, you can make File Manager modify permissions in a recursive manner, assuming that your Plesk administrator set up the Permissions Recursive extension and that you understand the octal notation of file permissions.

To enable recursive editing of access permissions:

1. Place the cursor over the directory and wait for the highlight.
2. Click to open its context menu and then again on Set Permissions Recursive.
3. Now you can edit them. “Folder Permissions” is talking about the higher-level directory and any of its associated sub-directories. “File Permissions” applies to sub-files in this instance.
4. When you’ve completed your permission amendments, click OK.

File Search in File Manager

You’ve got a little bit of latitude with file searches. You can have File Manager hunt for a specific bit of text either in the file name, in the content, or in both. You can choose how you want it to search for files by clicking on the icon that appears adjacent to your chosen search field, and then clicking on whichever type you prefer.

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Command To Run (execute) Bin Files In Linux

I have downloaded a file from internet that ends with .bin extension. The documentation (INSTALL.TXT) file says just run bin file. What command I need to type in order to run bin files in Linux or Unix-like operating systems?

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A .bin file is a self extracting binary file for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. For example Java or Flash are two examples of these types of file. Just type following two commands to run .bin files. In this example, I am going to run a binary file called file.bin .

Run .bin file in Linux / UNIX

Change the permission of the file you downloaded to be executable. Type the following command:
$ chmod +x file.bin

Start the installation process or run .bin file. Type the following command:
./file.bin

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For example if .bin file name is application.bin. Type the following commands:
$ chmod +x application.bin
$ ./application.bin

Another example for Java Linux self extracting binary file:
$ chmod +x jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin
$ ./jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin
OR
$ sh jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin

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if that doesn’t work try sudo ./file.bin on debian
or su ./file.bin on other distros

“chmod: cannot access `jre-6u26-linux-x64.bin’: No such file or directory”
What do I do, I am freaking out over it (Because ADHD) I tried it so many times it still won’t work, I’m also trying to play minecraft on Ubuntu

resubmitting to be notified of a reply by email.

Hello ,
I was trying to extract from the java bin file. I could change the mode, but when I say ./filename.bin ( according to your last example), it says file not found although I am just cutting and pasting the file name and it is in the same directory.

]$ chmod +x ./java_ee_sdk-5_05-linux.bin
[saras@node032

]$ ./java_ee_sdk-5_05-linux.bin
./java_ee_sdk-5_05-linux.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[saras@node032

]$
can you help please ? thanks

yu need to install libstdc++ package to solve this problem. Use yum under centos/fedora/redhat or apt-get under debian/ubuntu Linux.

Thanks Vivek.
I managed to unzip it. I have a unrelated question on running java on a cluster. Where can I ask the question. I was not sure if I should ask about it here.

while executing a bin file i am getting the message : End-of-central-directory signature not found.

i get the following erroe while running the ./Googleearthlinux.bin command that is the fllowing
Verifying archive integrity…Error in MD5 checksums: 97ca3ea1d8c49adb873a8a13114463b4 is different from 33fdc468b730cef74ac8f5cc4dc83259

Your file is corrupted. Delete current file and download fresh file again.

Hi,
I have a Synology 207+ at home running on Linux and the ARM architecture.
Now I want to install JRE so I can make Jetty run in order to be able to use Java servlets and jsp files in my webpage.
Now when trying to install j2re-1_4_2_19-linux-i586.bin I get an error:
380: /usr/bin/sum: Permission Denied
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
Extracting…
./install.sfx.15986: ./install.sfx.15986: 1: Syntax error: “(” unexpected
Done.

What does this mean? I’m not sure if I downloaded the proper JRE. Does someone know how to fix this? thanks

I have to run a UNIX shell script . What command I need to type in order to run UNIX shell files in Linux?

To run the UNIX shell script,type
./filename.sh.
Before running the above command,check the file permission because the file should have execute permission

When I normally klik the .bin file it opens with kate (text editor). I have tried to run the command, but it only opens mozilla and types it in the url section. What is wrong? I have installed libstdc++6

Hey guys,
I was trying to install SiteMinder Policy Server on CentOS 5.2. I already chmod+x’d it. As I executed the .bin file I received this error. I have googled it and this error is not mentioned in the install manual. I would appreciate some advise.

[root@localhost SiteMinder Policy Server]# ./ca-ps-12.0-sp1-linux.bin
Preparing to install…
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive…
Unpacking the JRE…
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive…
Configuring the installer for this system’s environment…

‘SWING’ UI not supported by VM. Reverting to AWT.
Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Stack Trace:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:140)
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:62)
at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:224)
at java.awt.Window.(Window.java:268)
at java.awt.Frame.(Frame.java:398)
at java.awt.Frame.(Frame.java:363)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.g(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.h(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.a(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(DashoA8113)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA8113)
This Application has Unexpectedly Quit: Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Hi,
Sometimes you need to change the file name and then install.

Hi!
I am new to linux.My situation:
ziga@ziga-laptop:

$ chomd +x./math.bin
ziga@ziga-laptop:

$ /home/ziga/math/…/emlin701/math.bin
bash: /home/ziga/math/…/emlin701/math.bin: cannot execute binary file
What can i do? Is there an option to transform an .bin into an .iso file?
Thanks for your help.

Easier way… Just right click, goto permissions tab, and mark as executable. Then open the terminal and drag & drop the .bin or w/e file into it, and press enter.

Thanks Tesu, heck of a lot easier

Im trying to install java 6.15 so I gave it 100% read write permission to everyone, and it still wont work. when I put $> jre-6u15-linux-i586-rpm.bin it says there is an error, order not found

For ubuntu you can just draw the file into terminal so it has the file location and type command run

Having trouble with trying to set up Java Runtime Environment, in the terminal it says..

Unpacking…
./jre-6u16-linux-i586.bin: 336: cannot create install.sfx.3679: Permission denied
Checksumming…
/usr/bin/sum: install.sfx.3679: No such file or directory
[: 363: -ne: unexpected operator
[: 363: -ne: unexpected operator
chmod: cannot access ‘install.sfx.3679’: No such file or directory
Extracting…
./jre-6u16-linux-i586.bin: 366: ./install.sfx.3679: not found
Failed to extract files.

Any idea on how to fix this??

Make sure downloaded file is not corrupted and you must install it as the root user.

I am trying to install an UnetBootin bin on a converted RHEL 6.4 (updated to CentOS 6.5) distro. nothing I do seems to change whether this see the file…

————————-
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Jul 28 13:32 libpng.so.3 -> libpng.so.3.49.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Jul 28 13:32 libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.49.0
[burwellp@rexstation lib64]$ yum install /home/burwellp/Downloads/unetbootin-linux-608.bin
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
You need to be root to perform this command.
[burwellp@rexstation lib64]$ sudo yum install /home/burwellp/Downloads/unetbootin-linux-608.bin
[sudo] password for burwellp:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.einstein.yu.edu
* extras: centos.netnitco.net
* updates: mirror.team-cymru.org
Setting up Install Process
No package /home/burwellp/Downloads/unetbootin-linux-608.bin available.
Error: Nothing to do
[burwellp@rexstation lib64]$ sudo /home/burwellp/Downloads/unetbootin-linux-608.bin
/home/burwellp/Downloads/unetbootin-linux-608.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
————————-

[burwellp@rexstation lib64]$ sudo yum install libpng
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.solarvps.com
* extras: mirror.solarvps.com
* updates: mirror.cs.pitt.edu
Setting up Install Process
Package 2:libpng-1.2.49-1.el6_2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

I am trying to install jdk-6u13-linux-i586.bin in fedora 11.
and i am getting this error.
i have performed the steps as mentioned in answer.
please help me..

please enter “yes” or “no”.
Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
yes
Unpacking…
Checksumming…
Extracting…
./jdk-6u13-linux-i586.bin: ./install.sfx.2551: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
Failed to extract the files. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of
the Installation Instructions on the download page for more information.

Hi Kunal, did you succeed to install JDK? I have the same problem.
Thanks.

Thanks, now adobe reader is running on my machine.

Thank You
easy to follow instructions. I have been left confused with other explanations

./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Error loading the runtime (/tmp/air.ZxdZsy/build/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/libCore.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied)

HELP……I am begging if someone could tell me how to execute a file, it has been doing my head in for the last 3days and i have tried everything. So please, please, please lert me know A.S.A.P tanks one love

I am trying to install jre on a HP thin client with about 256 Free space on the built in flash memory but when I run the comman ./jre blah blah blah and accept the agreement
i get the following output

unpacking…..
Checksumming…
Extracting….
Failed to extract the file. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of the installation instructions on the download page for more information.

please help someone – I am trying to use a thin client to connect the a server via a web browser – wanting the run the business database from the browser – but on Windows, when you connect for the first time – you have to install Jinitiator but I dont know how to achieve this in linux so I was trying this – anyone knwo what I need to do

forgot to add a line to the error above

after the Extracting…..
it says
./jre *********.bin; line 366 ./install.sfx.22300; cannot execute binary file

apt-get install ia32-libs

Thanks a lot! I have search for 2 hours to the solution, and here it is!

if you got this error on an ubuntu 64bit system, try to install the ia32 libs

./jre *********.bin; line 366 ./install.sfx.22300; cannot execute binary file

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Thanks, exactly what was needed to get the legacy Adobe Air up and running on Mint 10 (64 bit)

Hi, Thanks it works for me.
R. Luntu

Thanks all, lots of good advice on linux binaries for the novices out here.

hey while installin java for a cloud cluster d agreement thing came up but its not exitin back to the terminal.. how do i get back to d terminal do tat it installs java??

Hi everyone,
Does speicial installation required on RedHat5 (i686) for installing JDK? I downloaded the java twice and i am still having this issue. Can someone please advice me if it me trying to install the wrong 64bit java version or the installation document is different?

chmod +x jdk-6u20-linux-x64.bin
./jdk-6u20-linux-x64.bin
…….Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
yes
Unpacking…
Checksumming…
Extracting…
./jdk-6u20-linux-x64.bin: line 477: ./install.sfx.3205: cannot execute binary file
Failed to extract the files. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of
the Installation Instructions on the download page for more information.

Very useful instructions …

hi all…
im tryng to run jdk-6u23-linux-i586.bin in my ubuntu 8.10…. bt unable to..

$ sudo apt-get install ‘/home/hareen/Documents/jdk-6u23-linux-i586.bin’
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package

this is the error im getting…..
please help…..
Thnx in advance. 🙂

hi.
i am new to shell, i want to acceess a web page on linux server from a remote machine .
can any one guide me what to do or which forum to follow….
plz….. its urgent

I have a list of commands to be executed in UNIX on dialy basis….

Is there anyway that i could save those commands in a document and execute those commands by using .sh….or anything else command?

I tried using .sh but it executes only the first line, what i need to do to make it run all the commands…?

You can use the “Cron” or “at” command to execute the jobs on a daily basis

Thanks very useful

how i can install exe modem file to linux suses please answer me cuz i need it

Wine is the only windows emulator that I know of that would work. Have you checked your /etc/pppd and /etc/ppp.conf files to see if there isn’t already a driver for your modem? If it’s a Ethernet NIC (network interface card) and not a “modem”, then it will probably work straight out of the box.

i want to install modem zain connect it’s setup.exe to linux how i can do that please tell me

Hi ,
I bit confused with LVM and RAID.Can someone explain me with a realtime example

Thank you. Very helpful!

thank u for the simple yet very helpful comment.

Thanks very much, it was a 64Bit sudo apt-get install ia32-libs did the job

What about is there any file’s name can be used to save a file to execute in terminal without command it from terminal? What i mean is i want it to be operated when i click on the file’s icon, it will directly run its function in terminal of linux fedora. (e.g. file.txt or file.sh or file.trx) but to run it in terminal is “file.?” ?

Thanks in advance.

hello,
I m installing java on AIX machine It shows error on

./install.sfx.409050 : 0403-006 execute permission denied .
thanks

You need to set execute permission using the chmod +x command:

thanks Vivek, But I alredy gave the permission to that file

Dear All. M having the following error while executing the commend

root@root:# ll | grep i86bi_linux-adventerprisek9-ms
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nayatel nayatel 93580556 2011-11-02 16:29 i86bi_linux-adventerprisek9-ms*
root@root:# ./i86bi_linux-adventerprisek9-ms
bash: ./i86bi_linux-adventerprisek9-ms: No such file or directory

Kindly suggest any solution

Looks like it’s been made executable (* at end) and you are the owner, the file has an inode and at least one file linked to it…. I take it that ll is an alias for ls -l or something akin to that, so unless it searches across multiple directories, and you aren’t in the correct directory to run the script (of course the file has to be in the PWD for it to run) then more than likely the file is corrupted and you have to download it again.

Thanks.
i success to run it.

On Ubuntu/Kubuntu variants…
$ ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
bash: ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin: No such file or directory

Fixed by running:
$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
$ ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Thank you all above who suggested this!

I am using CentOs 6 and this “compat-libstdc++-33” package along with its dependencies are responsible to run ./filename.bin file. After installing the above package, I have successfully executed .bin file in CentOs 6.

Simply run “yum install compat-libstdc++-33” to install this package.

Trying that now…

[burwellp@rexstation lib64]$ sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-33
[sudo] password for burwellp:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.solarvps.com
* extras: mirror.solarvps.com
* updates: mirror.team-cymru.org
Setting up Install Process
Package compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

trying to reinstall now

[root@rexstation Downloads]# ./unetbootin-linux-608.bin
./unetbootin-linux-608.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@rexstation Downloads]# ls -ltr –color=never unet*
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 burwellp burwellp 4467972 Jul 28 11:49 unetbootin-linux-608.bin

I wonder if it’s a broken link somewhre…
[root@rexstation Downloads]# locate libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0.49.0
[root@rexstation Downloads]# ls -ltr /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Jul 28 13:32 /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.49.0
[root@rexstation Downloads]# ls -ltr libpng12.so.0.49.0
ls: cannot access libpng12.so.0.49.0: No such file or directory
[root@rexstation Downloads]# aha!

What the heck am I doing wrong here?

[root@rexstation Downloads]# ln -d /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0.49.0 /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
ln: creating hard link `/usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0′: File exists
[root@rexstation Downloads]# ./unetbootin-linux-608.bin
./unetbootin-linux-608.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@rexstation Downloads]# ls -ltr /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 18 Jul 28 13:32 /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.49.0

I wanted to make a .bin file which will copy all the files with name having “am” in common… usually in the terminal we use “cp *am* “… I wrote the same command inside the .bin file, a shown below… but it acts like “echo”… please help.

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