Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" Organization: I need more of this! To: "Yili Zhao" Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 01:14:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Why cygwin can not find it? CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4089BF85.3186.4F91A39@localhost> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi Yili, On 24 Apr 2004 at 7:51, Yili Zhao spoke, thus: > I use cygiwn to compile a simple application hello.exe in e:\test, when I > enter /cyggrive/e/test and execute hello.exe in cygwin bash. However, > though hello.exe exists in this directory, cygwin still says that "bash: > hello.exe: command not found". If > I copy hello.exe to /usr/local/bin, then cygwin can find it. Bash does not search the current directory by default for files to execute if no path is specified. You can: 1. Add current directory (".") to your path. This is not recommended, for security reasons. 2. Learn to live with the new (and IMHO better) convention of addressing everything by its full path: ./hello.exe This question is commonly asked, and could have been answered by the Cygwin FAQ. Please use this valuable resource before asking questions. See: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC36 Equally, your subject line doesn't really tell me much about your question - you may find response levels to your enquiry to be poor if you do not construct a more meaningful subject line. You just happen to have encountered a recently joined participant on the mailing list who hasn't set up a filter rule yet - but you won't be so lucky next time, I'm ruthless with my mailing list scans, I've a loada mail to look at each day. On the mailing list pages are links and text which you absolutely *must* read and understand. We can't help you unless you help yourself. Finally, a word of advice from me, because Cygwin gives you chance to use NT's cmd.exe or Win9x' command.com as command prompt, you may wish to stick with it (add Cygwin binary directories /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin [urgh] to your path environment variable) - you may then run tools straight from your more familiar, less unusual (to you) "C:\>" prompt. Cheers, Sabahattin -- Thought for the day: Dictatorship (n): a form of government under which everything which is not prohibited is compulsory. Latest PGP Public key blocks? Send any mail to: Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 (0)20 7,502-1615 Mobile: +44 (0)7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/