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echo: rberrypi
to: JAN PANTELTJE
from: PETER PERCIVAL
date: 2018-07-05 15:43:00
subject: Re: a.out problem

Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Thu, 5 Jul 2018 14:22:06 +0100) it happened Peter Percival
>  wrote in :
>
>> 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
> ./aout
>
> For compile, better use
> gcc -Wall -o hello hello.c
>
> ./hello
>
>
Thank you.  I have added . to PATH and it now works.

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