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Discussion in 'General' started by Mr_Mistoffelees, 10 Aug 2023.

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    I know this isn't the point of your post, and you may already know it, but just in case: which file. That'll tell you what specific file will be run for a given command - in this case, file. If it's installed and in your path, you'll know where to look; if it's not, you'll get an error (well, no, you'll get nothing, but you do get a non-zero exit condition, which is good enough.)

    Code:
    blacklaw@helios64:~$ which file
/usr/bin/file
blacklaw@helios64:~$ which notfile
blacklaw@helios64:~$
    If you see the second, then the command you're trying to run simply ain't there - either it's not installed or it's not on your path.
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 9 May 2025 at 21:05
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  2. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Honestly, that may well have been something I tried… I use it often, because I’ve been burned too many times by wacky conflicts between pyenv and uv…

    What really threw me off was getting a “permission denied” error when running “man” - of all the commands that could scold me for not having the right permissions, I get a telling off from “man”…?!

    Like I said, it just turned out that neither the “file” nor “man” packages had been installed. I expect missing packages in containers, because I try to use “slim” or “minimal” variants to keep image sizes down (although I don’t touch “alpine” with a bargepole if I can help it… [shudder]). But I don’t expect to get permission errors when a package simply isn’t installed…!

    Docker still has some way to go on macOS arm64!
     
    Byron C, 10 May 2025 at 01:38
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