This is not a question, but rather a simple how-to for
programmers who are new to the UNIX environment.
I too,am new to UNIX.
First I developed a few programs on my box and perfected them
until they were satisfactory for execution.
Problem was however, that once i compiled and all that,
it occured to me, that i was new to Unix and had no freakin
clue about how to run my apps from the command-line.
I couldn't for the life of me figure out how in the !$#@ to do this.
To experienced users, this is probably 'duh!' however, to a new
user like myself, this was all frustrating.
I spent a long time working on my little program and assumed that if it works it would run. Makes sense to me.
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Well, i was very wrong, and after i compiled my source file "myprogram.c" with the GNU CC compiler using the line:
cc myprogram.c
then another file appeared, called:
a.out
This was because i didn't specify a name for my program.
Having very little patients with the available documentation, I found nothing about running a program once you've created it.
So i tried typing my programs name in:
a.out [ENTER]
No good, instead i get a reply back saying:
a.out: Command not found.
I just wanted my freakin program to run.
Well, good news, it 'turns out' that prefixing the programs name with "./" works.
--thats a dot, a slash and then the programs path and name
so finally i entered:
./a.out [ENTER]
and voila! the darn thing worked.
If this seemed a bit long winded, it was.
I just hope this helps someone in the future.
late,
kray