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Reputation: 3941

cd command does not see the directory in bash

I have the following bash script:

#!/bin/bash
run_python(){
    cd "`dirname $1`"
    python "`basename $1`" $2 >test.log
}

crypto_util=/home/dev/src/crypto/util.py
run_python $crypto_util "testpassword"

Somehow cd command fails saying:

cd: /home/dev/src/crypto No such file or directory. I am quite sure the directory exists.

On a side note if I do the following this fails too:

run_python(){
    python "$1" $2 >test.log
}

Saying python can not open the file /home/dev/src/crypto/util.py because there is no such file.

Any idea why?

Here is the output of the ll command on the directory/file:

drwxr--r--. 2 dev root 4096 Jun 11 18:56 crypto

-rwxr--r--. 1 dev root  4934 Jun  9 10:50 util.py

Output of ls -llid /home/

654084 drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 May  8 10:52 /home

Output of ls -lid /home/dev/

924265 drwxr--r--. 4 dev root 4096 Jun  9 09:17 /home/dev/

Output of ls -lid/home/dev/src/:

924266 drwxr--r--. 9 dev root 4096 Jun  9 10:01 /home/dev/src/

Output of ls -lid/home/dev/src/crypto:

924333 drwxr--r--. 2 dev root 4096 Jun 11 18:56 /home/dev/src/crypto/

Output of ls -lid/home/dev/src/crypto/util.py:

924337 -rwxr--r--. 1 dev root 4934 Jun  9 10:50 /home/dev/src/crypto/util.py

Upvotes: 2

Views: 902

Answers (1)

Deleted User
Deleted User

Reputation: 2541

some of those dirs don't have x permission bit set - those are needed for entering a directory. Your problem may be that your scripts are running with another user as owner than "dev". dev is the only user allowed to change to those directories. Set the dirs to +x, and try again.

Upvotes: 2

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