<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6428">This was buried in my earlier posting. Having encountered the problem at other times that appears to be related to PATH.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6508" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6542" dir="ltr">I have a terminal window open to some directory. Inside that directory is a simple script. And PATH includes places like /usr/bin, but not the current directory.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6582" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6580" dir="ltr">Typing the following will usually run the script.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6545" dir="ltr"> . ./myscript</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6554" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6583" dir="ltr">But for some more complex stuff, this doesn't always work. For example, I downloaded a Firefox tarball and unpacked it to some directory.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6584" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6607" dir="ltr"> . ./firefox<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6610"> bash: .: ./firefox: cannot execute binary file</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6611" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6714" dir="ltr">What is the cause of my problem? At this point, it is falls under "Curious minds want to know."<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6715" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6644" dir="ltr">In the case of Firefox, the "fix" was that a recent update to the Debian package solved my need to run this download.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6645" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6664" dir="ltr">In a different case, the deb package has not been fixed. I copied the executable to /usr/bin and it ran. I have to remember that I have bypassed the package manager which might be a problem in future.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472664366402_6723" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>