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Philbus
Philbus

Reputation: 63

command prompt says "No such file or directory" but the file exists

I'm having a problem with running files in command prompt, keeps saying "no such file or directory"

I copy n pasted a pathway for an existing file and just swapped the file with the one that im being told does not exist. Tried various small changes in syntax as well.

in text editor:

from sys import argv
script, filename = argv
txt = open(filename)

print(f"heres the file you wanted:{filename}:")
print(txt.read())

print("type the filename again:")
file_again=input("> ")

txt_again=open(file_again)
print(txt_again.read())

in BASH:

python3.7 /users/philipedwards/Documents/ex15.py test.txt

Upvotes: 2

Views: 20536

Answers (2)

ploox
ploox

Reputation: 1

For futur persons facing this problem. It's maybe because of the binary wich is 32Bits or any incompatible architercture. Here is an excellent thread referencing the same problem: No such file or directory? But the file exists!

Upvotes: 0

glhr
glhr

Reputation: 4537

I'm assuming test.txt is in the Documents folder. But, based on this command:

python3.7 /users/philipedwards/Documents/ex15.py test.txt

your current location might not be the Documents directory. By specifying text.txt you're trying to open text.txt from the current directory, not /users/philipedwards/Documents/test.txt.

So, either run the script from the Documents directory:

cd /users/philipedwards/Documents
python3.7 ex15.py test.txt

Or if you don't want to change the active directory, specify the full path of the text file:

python3.7 /users/philipedwards/Documents/ex15.py /users/philipedwards/Documents/test.txt

Upvotes: 3

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