noobiest question ever: I'm trying to work with python via cygwin on my pc laptop - I have a file (foo.py) but python can't find it. The error it's giving me is:
$ chmod +x foo.py
chmod: cannot access `foo.py': No such file or directory
Is there a special location within the Cygwin folder that I need to save my foo.py? Thanks! AP
It's not python that can't find your file, it's the chmod command. C drive is mapped to /cygdrive/c in Cygwin, and D drive is mapped to /cygdrive/d and so on and so forth.
Are you in the same directory as the file when you are running chmod?
If your file is at C:\mycode\python\foo.py then you should either change to that directory first -
$ cd c:
$ cd mycode/python/
or as @Ahmed mentioned above, you could also run the command as
$ chmod +x /cygdrive/c/mycode/python/foo.py
But you only need chmod if your python script starts with
#!/bin/python
To execute such a file, you'd say
$ /cygdrive/c/mycode/python/foo.py
Or if you are in the same directory
./foo.py
If the first line of the python script isn't "#!/bin/python" then you can skip the chmod and just type
python /cygdrive/c/mycode/python/foo.py