how to fix Permission denied on directory in unix?

Question

I have a ksh file which will download a zip file from the internet in the /tmp directory with name f.zip

Why do I get Permission denied?

$ ./downloadbcfi
Current name is /download.files.R1201BHtm.zip
/tmp/f.zip: Permissin denied

When I look at the permission on the /tmp directory everything is ok as below:

Solution 1

Use this command in command line tool

chmod 0777 /tmp/f.zip

Solution 2

if you have ran your script as root and now as normal user. Then you may not have permission to read/write f.zip

Comments

[Sjoerd]

It could be because /tmp/f.zip already exists.

[Oleg Mikheev]

tried to run script as root?

[Wooble]

Is the shell really spelling "permission" wrong, or is this not an actual copy and paste?

[Admin]

You are right /tmp/f.zip already exists and i have not permission to write to it. thanks