which in AIX

[Guest_imported]

Hi all,

anybody knows why I can "which" an executable file but I cannot execute it?

e.g.
/home > which testing
/home/klins/testing

/home > testing
testing: command not found

thanks

 

[tcorum]

From your post it could be a number of problems. First thing to try would be either giving the full path of the file or changing into the directory its in.

/home/klins

From what you said in the post you are trying to run it from home?

If you don't have a . in your path then you might try changing to the directory and typing ./testing

If you still have problems change to the directory and type
ls -la testing and make sure it has the x - execute permission on the file where you need it and that depends
on if you are the owner or in the same group as the owner.

Hope this helps,

Tcorum

 

[ElgisRamon]

In AIX the correct command to use to "find" commands on Korn Shell is [tt]whence[/tt]. [tt]which[/tt] was created for CSH users, then it will look for alias and path definitions a-la Csh style.

I hope it works...
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