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# 1  
Old 01-22-2015
Is "stat: illegal option -- -" an issue with hyphenated filename or flag problem?
Hi.

I'm trying to install VMWare Workstation to run a virtual machine on my Mac OS, but running the bundle from bash(xterm)

Code:
sh VMware-workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle

(as suggested in install guide)

comes up with error:
Code:
stat: illegal option -- -
usage: stat [-FlLnqrsx] [-f format] [-t timefmt] [file ...]

Digging around, I can't tell if the hyphens in the bundle name are an issue (seems strange), or something else.

Any clues?
Last edited by rbatte1; 01-23-2015 at 07:19 AM..
# 2  
Old 01-22-2015
Maybe they stored options to stat in a variable which somehow isn't getting set? stat -$VAR and VAR somehow skips being set.

Or maybe sh isn't actually BASH.

Those are wild guesses. It's pretty much impossible to see what's going wrong without seeing the program.
# 3  
Old 01-23-2015
Can you try making it executeable
Code:
chmod +x VMware-workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle

and the running with
Code:
./VMware-workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle

?
# 4  
Old 01-23-2015
Cheers!

I've tried your suggestion gowron, but receive the same error after the second line.

ie.
Code:
stat: illegal option -- -
usage: stat [-FlLnqrsx] [-f format] [-t timefmt] [file ...]

---------- Post updated at 11:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:32 PM ----------

Update: following thread others on linuxquestions along the same lines, nearly got there... but no. (nb. I typed in my wrong password first time)

Code:
bash-3.2$ ./VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle 
stat: illegal option -- -
usage: stat [-FlLnqrsx] [-f format] [-t timefmt] [file ...]
bash-3.2$ sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle 
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
stat: illegal option -- -
usage: stat [-FlLnqrsx] [-f format] [-t timefmt] [file ...]

# 5  
Old 01-23-2015
I repeat. Without seeing what the contents of that file are, we can't know why it's plugging weird options into stat.
# 6  
Old 01-24-2015
According to this page, it is not supported on OSX. You probably need VMWare fusion 7 or fusion 7 pro
 
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