Re: can't execute a.out....

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From: nordi
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:11

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JJ wrote:
> 
> I installed RedHat Linux 6.2 recently. When compiled and tried to execute a
> simple C program, I got the following error - "bash: a.out: command not
> found."
> 
> I compiled my HelloWorld program using gcc as follows: gcc simple.c (no
> erros were reported)
> Then, I checked a.out attributes, they were -rwxr-xr-x.
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> What can be wrong? Why doesn't it execute?

I assume that your program is called "a.out". If you
use your system as root user (which you shouldn't)
then you have to add a "./" to execute a program in
the current directory. That's for security reasons.
Just try the command "./mylittleprogram" to start
"mylittleprogram" and maybe it'll work.

nordi

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