UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Dear all,
I download a .exe file in my current folder called: ukbmd5.exe. I was told to run the command below: ukbmd5 ukb25278.enc to verify the integrity of the files that you have downloaded and the program ukbmd5 has been made available to assist with decrpying ukb25278.enc.
while when I run 'ukbmd5 ukb25278.enc', I was told the command was not found. Should I make the ukbmd5.exe file executable first? how to do that? thank you very much for your help!
Lin

Exactly which operating system did you download the file to?

A file having a .exe extension implies (but only implies) that it's a Windows file, not a Linux one. You won't be able to natively run that on a Linux system.

If you're on Linux, what does

Code:

file ukbmd5.exe

show you?

Where did "ukbmd5.enc" come from in all of this? Apart from the UK register for births, marriages and deaths, I really don't know what UKBMD is

Making any file "executable" on Linux is easy (e.g. with the chmod command), but that doesn't mean it can be executed.