Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???
On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 22:46 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Tom H wrote, on 05/03/2014 15:02:
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On my machine /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin is a link to
> >> /usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel . So maybe on your machine
> >> /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin is a dangling link.
> >> What is the output of
> >>
> >> $ ls -lF /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
> >
> > The OP's installed an old version of firefox outside of the packaging system!
> >
>
> I read that. But the symptom he describes could be due to a dangling link.
I don't think so, a soft link would show that it's a soft link, it
doesn't matter, if it's broken or ok. So we are talking about a hard
link?
$ echo "12345678" > test.txt
$ ln test.txt hello_world
$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 9 May 3 23:02 hello_world
-rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 9 May 3 23:02 test.txt
$ rm test.txt
$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 9 May 3 23:02 hello_world
$ cat hello_world
12345678
Nothing gets lost.
Soft links, broken and ok.
$ touch c
$ ln -s c a
$ ln -s b d
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1 May 3 23:05 a -> c
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 May 3 23:05 c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1 May 3 23:05 d -> b
Now the output of the OP:
$ ls -alh /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/
total 20M
drwxr-xr-x 13 root staff 4.0K May 1 18:30 .
drwxrwsr-x 9 root staff 4.0K May 1 18:04 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2.1K Mar 6 2012 application.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 0 Mar 6 2012 .autoreg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 5.1K Mar 6 2012 blocklist.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 232 Mar 6 2012 browserconfig.properties
drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 chrome
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 components
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 51K Mar 6 2012 crashreporter
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3.8K Mar 6 2012 crashreporter.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 583 Mar 6 2012 crashreporter-override.ini
drwxr-xr-x 5 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 136 Mar 6 2012 dependentlibs.list
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 dictionaries
drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 extensions
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 3.9K Mar 6 2012 firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 44K Mar 6 2012 firefox-bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 greprefs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 icons
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 478 Mar 6 2012 libfreebl3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 326K Mar 6 2012 libfreebl3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1.1M Mar 6 2012 libmozjs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 201K Mar 6 2012 libnspr4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 853K Mar 6 2012 libnss3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 390K Mar 6 2012 libnssckbi.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 478 Mar 6 2012 libnssdbm3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 121K Mar 6 2012 libnssdbm3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 81K Mar 6 2012 libnssutil3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 14K Mar 6 2012 libplc4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 8.8K Mar 6 2012 libplds4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 123K Mar 6 2012 libsmime3.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 478 Mar 6 2012 libsoftokn3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 194K Mar 6 2012 libsoftokn3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 501K Mar 6 2012 libsqlite3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 169K Mar 6 2012 libssl3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 12K Mar 6 2012 libxpcom.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 16M Mar 6 2012 libxul.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 31K Mar 6 2012 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 modules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 11K Mar 6 2012 mozilla-xremote-client
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 137 Mar 6 2012 platform.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 3.7K Mar 6 2012 plugin-container
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 177 Mar 6 2012 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 16K Mar 6 2012 removed-files
drwxr-xr-x 6 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 res
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 9.8K Mar 6 2012 run-mozilla.sh
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 searchplugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 825 Mar 6 2012 Throbber-small.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 6 Mar 6 2012 update.locale
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 71K Mar 6 2012 updater
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 143 Mar 6 2012 updater.ini
What makes you think, that there might be a broken link?
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