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File failed to copy due to reason: Success (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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The real reason was a boring one and seemingly unrelated to that file. I just ran out of disk space. Still though, that’s not exactly a helpful error is it

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/bash.1.html

Lists A list is a sequence of one or more pipelines separated by one of the operators ;, &, &&, or ||, and optionally terminated by one of ;, &, or .

   Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence, followed by ; and &, which have equal precedence.

   A sequence of one or more newlines may appear in a list instead of a semicolon to delimit commands.

   ....

   AND and OR lists are sequences of one or more pipelines separated by the && and || control operators, respectively.  AND and OR lists are executed with left associativity.  An AND list has the form

          command1 && command2

   **command2 is executed if, and only if, command1 returns an exit status of zero (success).**

So, command 1 returns success, but command 2 fails. The FAILED comment at the beginning of the error message is the message to parse, one part succeeded, the other failed.

Not using && and running your command by line will show where the error is.