Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D600891.2000501@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:50:25 -0500 From: "Cyber.Zombie" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Abhijit Patait CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "bash: hello: Command not found" error for hello.exe in present directory References: <20020818204058.4357.qmail@web9401.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Because unlike DOS and NT command shells, bash et.al. do NOT look for any executables in the current directory unless explicitly told to do so (by prepending './' to the command or adding '.' to the PATH). Abhijit Patait wrote: >I recently installed cygwin on my Windows XP machine. >I wrote a simple "hello world" program and compiled >and linked it using gcc to create an executable named >"hello.exe" in a directory, named ~/hello/. However, >when I type "hello.exe" on the command line (in the >directory ~/hello/), I get a "bash: hello: command not >found" error. I have verified that the file hello.exe >exists in that directory. > >A workaround is that I have to issue a command >"./hello" and then it works. Another workaround is >that I append "./" to my path in the .bashrc file in >my home directory and then it works too. Could someone >shed light on what's going on? Why is the shell not >able to look for the command in the present directory >first? > >Thanks in advance for your help. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs >http://www.hotjobs.com > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/