Re: "bash: hello: Command not found" error for hello.exe in presentdirectory

["Cyber.Zombie" <Cyber dot Zombie at attbi dot com>]

Because unlike DOS and NT command shells, bash et.al. do NOT look for 
any executables in the current directory unless explicitly told to do so 
(by prepending './' to the command or adding '.' to the PATH).

Abhijit Patait wrote:

> I recently installed cygwin on my Windows XP machine.
> I wrote a simple "hello world" program and compiled
> and linked it using gcc to create an executable named
> "hello.exe" in a directory, named ~/hello/. However,
> when I type "hello.exe" on the command line (in the
> directory ~/hello/), I get a "bash: hello: command not
> found" error. I have verified that the file hello.exe
> exists in that directory.
>
> A workaround is that I have to issue a command
> "./hello" and then it works. Another workaround is
> that I append "./" to my path in the .bashrc file in
> my home directory and then it works too. Could someone
> shed light on what's going on? Why is the shell not
> able to look for the command in the present directory
> first?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
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