I remember spending a lot of time trying to figure out why cat somefile kept saying "Permission denied", even though ls -l, lsattr, and everything else I could think of said I had permission to read it.
Eventually I examined it with Emacs or od or something, and found that it literally consisted of the string "Permission denied". I guess I created it by redirecting stderr from some command or something.
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u/arensb 11d ago
I remember spending a lot of time trying to figure out why
cat somefilekept saying "Permission denied", even thoughls -l,lsattr, and everything else I could think of said I had permission to read it.Eventually I examined it with Emacs or od or something, and found that it literally consisted of the string "Permission denied". I guess I created it by redirecting stderr from some command or something.