Bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Question

I am trying to deploy my site with EB CLI. Whenever I try to run $ eb --version, it always shows the error below, even though it works on my CMD. Can anyone help me with it? Thank you.

     /c/Users/username/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python35/Scripts/eb: 
     c:\users\user: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '20 at 19:48

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This error is related to your terminal and the environment it runs on. You get the same error with e.g. cygwin using git bash. In a script I had something like this:

#!/c/Program Files/some_program/executable.exe

Escaping the space with a backslash or using quotes didn't work.

The solution is to use the DOS' short filename:

Progra~1 for "Program Files"
Progra~2 for "Program Files (x86)"

So my line would turn into:

#!/c/Progra~1/some_program/executable.exe

answered May 29 '20 at 19:48

Younes El Ouarti

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I faced this issue for pyang and your solution did the trick. thank you! – Aneesh Damodaran Jun 17 '21 at 05:15
I'm glad it helped :) – Younes El Ouarti Jun 17 '21 at 06:52

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 23 '17 at 13:06

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Try double backslash:

C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35\\Scripts\\eb

I was facing the same problem in ellipse, backslash and running the code in Python IDLE solved my problem.

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answered Mar 23 '17 at 12:05

Bhuvan Kumar

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Thanks alot mate! Works like a charm! – Jason Ching Yuk Mar 23 '17 at 12:48

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 13 '20 at 21:43

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In windows, it works for me using eb.exe instead of simply eb.

answered Sep 13 '20 at 21:43

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 10 '19 at 19:48

This did not work for me. I tried double-backslash. It seems that the 'eb' script is using the System or User paths to call other scripts. Even if I manually edit my System and User PATH variables in Windows to use quotes around each entry, I still hit the above issue.

My error:

$ /c/Users/myname/AppData/Roaming/Python/Python37/Scripts/eb -version
  bash: /c/Users/myname/AppData/Roaming/Python/Python37/Scripts/eb: 
  c:\program: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

It seems to be an issue with EB running on Bash.

So instead I made Visual Studio Code use cmd prompt instead of bash, using the following answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50527994/277601

Bad interpreter: No such file or directory

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