After setup gradle and chmod +x, it still ./gradlew: cannot execute: required file not found

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I setup the gradle and add execution by chmod +x, but it still failed to run ./gradlew, why?

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name: JMH Benchmarks on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: jmh-benchmarks: runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: contents: write steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up JDK 17 uses: actions/setup-java@v4 with: java-version: '17' distribution: 'temurin' # Configure Gradle for optimal use in GitHub Actions, including caching of downloaded dependencies. # See: https://github.com/gradle/actions/blob/main/setup-gradle/README.md - name: Setup Gradle uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@af1da67850ed9a4cedd57bfd976089dd991e2582 # v4.0.0 - name: Make Gradle wrapper executable run: chmod +x ./gradlew - name: Verify Gradle wrapper run: ls -la ./gradlew - name: Check if gradlew exists run: test -f ./gradlew && echo "gradlew exists" || echo "gradlew not found" - name: Clean fs-core module run: ./gradlew :fs-core:clean - name: Run JMH benchmarks run: ./gradlew :fs-tests:jmh - name: Copy results to docs directory run: mkdir -p docs/jmh && cp fs-tests/build/reports/jmh/results.json docs/jmh/ - name: Configure Git run: | git config --global user.name '${{github.actor }}' git config --global user.email '${{github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com' - name: Commit and push results run: | git add docs/jmh/results.json git commit -m 'Run jmh-benchmarks.yml and update JMH benchmark results via GitHub Actions' git push origin HEAD:${{github.ref_name }} 

Failed on

Run ./gradlew :fs-core:clean ./gradlew :fs-core:clean shell: /usr/bin/bash -e{0} env: JAVA_HOME: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Java_Temurin-Hotspot_jdk/17.0.17-10/x64 JAVA_HOME_17_X64: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Java_Temurin-Hotspot_jdk/17.0.17-10/x64 GRADLE_ACTION_ID: gradle/actions/setup-gradle GRADLE_USER_HOME: /home/runner/.gradle GRADLE_BUILD_ACTION_SETUP_COMPLETED: true GRADLE_BUILD_ACTION_CACHE_RESTORED: true DEVELOCITY_INJECTION_INIT_SCRIPT_NAME: gradle-actions.inject-develocity.init.gradle DEVELOCITY_AUTO_INJECTION_CUSTOM_VALUE: gradle-actions GITHUB_DEPENDENCY_GRAPH_ENABLED: false /home/runner/work/_temp/98e5c072-bb65-44de-899f-8c16382aee96.sh: line 1: ./gradlew: cannot execute: required file not found Error: Process completed with exit code 127. 

[Venuru]

Your error is not caused by permissions - ./gradlew: cannot execute: required file not found

The failure happens because Linux cannot locate or interpret gradlew.
Fix the line endings OR use the correct path to gradlew.

1. Your gradlew file has Windows (CRLF) line endings
   Linux cannot execute a script with CRLF endings.

Fix:
Convert gradlew to LF and commit it:
dos2unix gradlew
git add gradlew
git commit -m "Fix gradlew line endings"
git push

2. gradlew is not in the repo root

Your workflow runs: ./gradlew :fs-core:clean

but the file might be inside a module like fs-core/gradlew.
Check with: - run: find . -maxdepth 3 -type f

If you see: ./fs-core/gradlew
then use: run: ./fs-core/gradlew :fs-core:clean