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echo: rberrypi
to: GI-TUX
from: PETER PERCIVAL
date: 2018-07-05 15:42:00
subject: Re: a.out problem

gi-tux wrote:
> On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 8:22:08 AM UTC-5, Peter Percival wrote:
>> I wrote a "Hello world" program in C.
>>
>> gcc hello.c
>>
>> creates a.out without warnings or error messages.  ls shows that a.out
>> exists.
>>
>> a.out
>>
>> gets the response
>>
>> -bash: a.out: command not found
>
> Try './a.out'.  It is likely that '.' is not in your path.
>

Thank you.  I have added . to PATH and it now works.

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