Thanks Bill, Ian and Ivan were correct and I'm rather red faced with such a simple question. Best of luck in your work. Ron Bill McEnaney wrote: > > > Ron, > > You're welcome. After I read your note, I used bash to run a "hello" > program that lived in my home directory. Since that directory was, and > is still, in my path, I didn't need to type "./hello" when I ran the > program. > > By the way, I usually use tcsh instead of bash, so I invoked bash when > tcsh when I got tcsh's command prompt. > > Bill > >> >> Bill, >> Thanks for your interest. >> The error I receive from the bash shell is that it does not recognize the >> command or something to that effect. I do not have the system in front > of me >> at this time so can't be more specific. >> >> Ron >> >> >> Bill McEnaney wrote: >> > >> > What, if any, error message do you get when you try to run the "hello" >> > program? >> > >> > Bill >> > >> >> >> >> I am a newbie to both Linux and C programming in Linux. >> >> My gcc compiler produces the file hello* after executing the command: >> >> gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello >> >> Bash will not execute this program. >> >> >> >> Thanks again in advance. >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> > > http://www.nabble.com/debian-gcc-produces-hello*-tf3919460.html#a11113530 >> >> Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > ________________________________________________________________ >> > Please visit a saintly hero: >> > http://www.jakemoore.org >> > >> > And a boy with a wonderful wish: >> > http://shaneswish.com/ >> > >> > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/debian-gcc-produces-hello*-tf3919460.html#a11113661 >> Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > ________________________________________________________________ > Please visit a saintly hero: > http://www.jakemoore.org > > And a boy with a wonderful wish: > http://shaneswish.com/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/debian-gcc-produces-hello*-tf3919460.html#a11142526 Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.