how to execute an excutable file

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:41 +0530, narendra wrote:
> Hi, 
> why shouldn't  current working directory be in the PATH??

People have gotten themselves into trouble by having executables in the
current directory and running them by accident.  The entire purpose of
having a PATH is to quarantine executables into a few well-known
directories.

Is it really so onerous to type in the extra two characters, "./"?

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:43:17 +0100, Johan Lithander wrote 
> > You most likely tried to run it as a.out instead of ./a.out 
> > The current working directory is usually not in the PATH (and
> shouldn't be in the PATH either !!!). 
> >   
> > /J 
> >   
> > 
> > 
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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nofriyadi
> Nurdam 
> > Sent: den 27 februari 2007 10:39 
> > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com 
> > Subject: how to execute an excutable file 
> >  
> > 
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I have compiled the program "HelloWorld.c". 
> > The C compiler gave me the executable file a.out as output. 
> > As I executed the a.out in console, I got answer "command not
> found". 
> > Is there someone who can tell me about that. 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance 
> > Nofriyadi 
> > 
> > 
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