.bin files

Hagi1513

Im trying to run a file called HGTdata.bin

first i typed in

chmod +x HGTdata.bin
then
./HGTdata.bin
and got this message

.HGT.bin cannot execute binary file

has anybody any suggestions thanks

aidan_walsh

Hagi1513 wrote:

Im trying to run a file called HGTdata.bin

first i typed in

chmod +x HGTdata.bin
then
./HGTdata.bin
and got this message

.HGT.bin cannot execute binary file

has anybody any suggestions thanks

maybe this?

sh HGTdata.bin

Arithon

Hagi1513 wrote:

Im trying to run a file called HGTdata.bin

first i typed in

chmod +x HGTdata.bin
then
./HGTdata.bin
and got this message

.HGT.bin cannot execute binary file

has anybody any suggestions thanks

You can use the "file" command to check the type of a file. It could be that the file isn't for your hardware platform (if binary), or that it's a script (as doodle_sketch suggested). I give an example below where I've copied "echo" across from a SPARC box (running Solaris).

$ file /bin/echo
/bin/echo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
$ /bin/echo

$ file ./echo_solaris
./echo_solaris: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
$ ./echo_solaris
bash: ./echo_solaris: cannot execute binary file

Basically, it needs to match your system (Intel? Linux? 32-bit?).

pickarooney

Or it's an unfinished/corrupted download.

Hagi1513

When i typed in
sh HGTdata.bin

i got cannot execute binary file

pickarooney

Did you chmod a+x ? You might have made it executable only for root or something.
What did file HGTdata.bin give?

[edit]Actually, I don't think it's a script at all, but a binary data file to be used by another program - see here[/edit]