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From: "Terry Flannery" <terry DOT flannery AT btinternet DOT com>
To: "Abhijit Patait" <abhijit_patait AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "bash: hello: Command not found" error for hello.exe in present directory
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:09:01 +0100
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Your windows 2000 machine has . in your path then, which is not done by
default.

Terry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Abhijit Patait" <abhijit_patait AT yahoo DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: "bash: hello: Command not found" error for hello.exe in present
directory


> This, however, does not happen on the cygwin bash
> shell installed on my Windows 2000 machine (I did not
> do anything special there). That's why I am confused!!
>
> Abhijit
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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