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echo: rberrypi
to: PETER PERCIVAL
from: MM0FMF
date: 2018-07-05 17:39:00
subject: Re: a.out problem

On 05/07/2018 15:43, Peter Percival wrote:
> 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.
>
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Don't put . in your path.

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