Docker‘s “executable file not found in $PATH: unknown“ trying to run “cd“-CSDN博客

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当尝试在Docker容器中运行`cd`命令时，出现"executable file not found in $PATH: unknown"错误。此问题源于`cd`是POSIX shell的一个特殊内置命令，而非独立程序。Docker容器通常只运行一个进程，改变工作目录可能不适用。解决方法包括使用`docker run -w`选项指定工作目录，或者在Dockerfile中添加`WORKDIR`指令，或者启动一个shell包装器作为主要容器进程，但后者可能导致引用问题。该问题可能与环境变量和使用的不同系统镜像有关。

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很熟悉的情况，又是莫名其妙好好的东西突然自己坏了，以前都好好的，最近突然冒出这个问题，在dockers容器外面输命令，容器就会报这个错，从stackoverflow上找到了解决办法

以前用的命令是

docker exec -it container ls

改用这个命令

docker exec -it container /bin/sh -c 'ls'

-it 去了也行，主要是/bin/bash 后面-c接命令

原因如下：

英文原文回答：

cd is a special built-in utility, in the language of the POSIX shell specification. It's something that changes the behavior of the running shell and not a standalone program. The error message means what it says: there is no /bin/cd or similar executable you can run.

Remember that a Docker container runs a single process, then exits, losing whatever state it has. It might not make sense for that single command to just change the container's working directory.

If you want to run a process inside a container but in a different working directory, you can use the docker run -w option

docker run -it \
  -w /workspace \
  cloudbuildtoolset:latest \
  the command you want to run

or, equivalently, add a WORKDIR directive to your Dockerfile.

You can also launch a shell wrapper as the main container process. This would be able to use built-in commands like cd, but it's more complex to use and can introduce quoting issues.

docker run -it cloudbuildtoolset:latest \
  /bin/sh -c 'cd /workspace && the command you want to run'

不过他这个解释的好像是cd这个命令的意义，没有细究为什么不能运行命令，我的理解是环境变量不一样，看网上回答什么系统镜像不一样，虽然我确实是一个Centos一个Ubuntu，但是我觉得不止于此，但难以细究