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Reputation: 22438

fish shell, $PATH and symlinked binary

According to these instructions I linked a binary into /usr/bin as follows:

sudo ln -s ~/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert /usr/bin

Now the symlink exists, and /usr/bin is obviously in $PATH:

   cls@clsmba > ls -lah /usr/bin/ebook-convert
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    64B Jul 18 13:00 /usr/bin/ebook-convert -> /Users/cls/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert

However, the fish shell doesn't know that it exists:

cls@clsmba > ebook-convert
fish: Unknown command 'ebook-convert'

cls@clsmba > ./usr/bin/ebook-convert
fish: Unknown command './usr/bin/ebook-convert'

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 685

Answers (1)

Kurtis Rader
Kurtis Rader

Reputation: 7459

You created /usr/bin/ebook-convert as a symlink. Then you attempted to run ./usr/bin/ebook-convert (note the leading dot) which won't work unless your cwd is / (i.e., the root dir). Of course the main problem is you probably don't have a /Users/cls/Applications directory; or, if you do, it doesn't contain calibre.app. You probably want /Applications not ~/Applications.

Upvotes: 2

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