Running TreeTagger

Question

I'm attempting to run TreeTagger using the French parameter file but I am getting a permission denied error with the french-utf8.par file

    [bash]:echo cmd/tree-tagger-french-utf8 | lib/french-utf8.par
    [bash]:lib/french-utf8.par: Permission denied

This is quite similar to this question here (TreeTagger installation successful but cannot open .par file), but I'm able to run the tagger like this:

    [bash]: echo 'Bonjour' | cmd/tree-tagger-french-utf8
reading parameters ...
tagging ...
 Bonjour    NOM bonjour
 finished.

I've tried changing to echo bin/tree-tagger, but I get the same error. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

echo cmd/tree-tagger-french-utf8 will print the string cmd/tree-tagger-french-utf8 and you're piping that to a par file. That cannot work, you need to pipe a file to a command, like in your second example but using cat filename (instead of echo 'Bonjour') if you want to feed a file to the TreeTagger.

Answer 2

Thats strange, I know this may seem obvious but have you tried running that command as sudo?

The "Permission Denied" hints that there is some permission problem.