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From: Mark Gallagher <mark@cyberfuddle.com>
To: "Sridhar J (june end)" <sridharj.hyd@cxknetworks.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reg:gcc
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:07:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D19BC77.2040402@cyberfuddle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F4D3DB9A18752A4F99FD880ABC5407179D15BA@ccdc-exchg.careercommunity.com

Sridhar J (june end) wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Thanks to all of you who replied promptly to my question. I would like to
> clarify one thing. When I compiled the program using gcc, I tried typing
> a.out. When that didn't work, I did a ls -l which showed me a file called
> a.out*.
> 
> Doesn't it mean that a.out is in the current directory? So why I should go
> to a parent directory as in ./a.out to execute it?

You aren't going to a parent directory in doing that.  "." is your 
present directory, and ".." is a parent.  So if you're in a child of the 
directory with a.out in it, then you'd use ../a.out.  If you're in the 
actual directory it's in, then use ./a.out.


-- 
Mark Gallagher
http;//cyberfuddle.com/infinitebabble/



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-26 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-26 12:26 Reg:gcc Sridhar J (june end)
2002-06-26 12:57 ` Reg:gcc Jos Lemmerling
2002-06-26 13:07 ` Mark Gallagher [this message]
2002-06-26 13:45 ` Reg:gcc Brian Bilbrey
2002-06-26 14:22 ` Reg:gcc Gavin Laking

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