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I'm new to putty.

However while running a shell script I got this error:

"cannot execute binary file"

I believed the syntax is :

sh Name_of_shellScript.sh parameters

How can I resolve this?

DavidPostill
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  • run chmod +x path/to/script/file.sh as root and try your command again. you can probably drop the leading sh as well. That said though, why are you using PuTTY if you are on Linux, as it would appear, since you are trying to invoke a .sh shell script? Most linux distros have an ssh client built in. – Frank Thomas Jun 25 '15 at 16:53
  • To drop the sh you'll have to run it as: ./Name_of_shellScript.sh parameters – Steven Jun 25 '15 at 17:05
  • .sh seems to indicate that it is a shell script. Cannot execute a binary file seem to indicate it is not. Can you check the contents of the file (e.g. file Name_of_the_thing_you_tried_to_execute) ? – Hennes Jun 25 '15 at 17:06
  • Check this thread http://superuser.com/questions/435988/how-can-i-resolve-the-error-cannot-execute-binary-file whether this helps. – BDRSuite Jun 25 '15 at 17:08

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I just ran into a similar problem, which, at least in my case, was caused by the fact that the .sh file was DOS-encoded (i.e. using \r\n as line endings instead of plain \n). Converting it with the venerable fromdos utility of the tofrodos package did fix the issue.

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