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oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# uname -a Linux oracle1 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 20:45:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# whoami root oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# ============================================= oracle1:/tmp# cd /tmp oracle1:/tmp# touch exfile oracle1:/tmp# cat exfile cat: /tmp/exfile: No such file or directory oracle1:/tmp# ls -al drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2011-04-08 21:38 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2011-04-08 21:38 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2009-11-20 09:19 .ICE-unix drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2009-11-20 09:19 .X11-unix -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-04-08 21:38 a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-04-08 21:38 exfile oracle1:/tmp# cat a cat: /tmp/a: No such file or directory oracle1:/tmp# cat exfile cat: /tmp/exfile: No such file or directory

after I installed the build-essential package I get this error on every directory ... anyone knows why ?

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oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# ls -al .... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379 2009-11-06 12:15 utf8.pm .... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4990 2009-11-06 12:15 fields.pm .... oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# pwd /usr/share/perl/5.10.0 oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# cat utf8.pm cat: /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/utf8.pm: No such file or directory oracle1:/usr/share/perl/5.10.0# cat fields.pm cat: /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/fields.pm: No such file or directory
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  • What happens when you type "which cat" ? Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 19:51
  • Also post results from "set | grep ALIASES" and "set | grep PATH" Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 19:58
  • oracle1:/bin# set | grep ALIASES Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 21:19
  • oracle1:/bin# set set is not returning anything ... i think i fked all up ... I must reinstall Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 21:21
  • It looks like some programs are missing out of /bin Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 22:05

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It's strange, but cat may have moved. I would try:

hash -r

in your current shell, and see if cat works again.

That command will dump the cache of program locations that Bash keeps. See man bash for more info.

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  • oracle1:/bin# hash -r Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 21:19
  • bash: hash: command not found Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 21:22

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