Unable to understand a permission warning in Mac

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050290

  •  20-08-2019
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Question

I have 777 permissions for the app AquaLess installed by MacPorts.

I run

./AquaLess.app

I get

zsh: permission denied: ./AquaLess.app

This is a strange warning, since I have 777 permissions.

How can you use the program installed by MacPorts?

Was it helpful?

Solution

Or you could run:

$ ./AquaLess.app/Contents/MacOS/AquaLess

Which runs the actual executable within the .app bundle.

OTHER TIPS

Type open AquaLess.app

A file with .app extension isn't an executable file. It's a directory that contains various resources in ways that Mac OS knows how to open.

You would get the same warning if you tried to execute $HOME.

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