“No such file or directory” but it exists

Question

I simply want to run an executable from the command line, ./arm-mingw32ce-g++, but then I get the error message,

bash: ./arm-mingw32ce-g++: No s         


        

Answer 1

Added here for future reference (for users who might fall into the same case): This error happens when working on Windows (which introduces extra characters because of different line separator than Linux system) and trying to run this script (with extra characters inserted) in Linux. The error message is misleading.

In Windows, the line separator is CRLF (\r\n) whereas in linux it is LF (\n). This can be usually be chosen in text editor.

In my case, this happened due to working on Windows and uploading to Unix server for execution.