program won't run in bash

[AshleySummy]

Hi,

I know this is a lame question and I've been told to not ask questions here that aren't worth you're guys' time, but I need a quick answer, I've scoured the internet and can't find the answer even though I'm sure it's out there.

Bash won't execute my programs or even recognize them. I wrote a simple program to test out and it won't work. I'm doing the following:

gcc -o hello hello.c

and that's fine. but when I type "hello" after that to run the program, I get an error saying "command not found".

All the permissions for my files are fine, I have rwx permissions on them all. I'm sure it's a simple fix, but I can't figure out what it is. I would SO appreciate any help anyone might have to offer.

Thanks,
Ashley

[kday]

try running ./hello

[matonb]

bash uses the PATH environment variable to look for commands (executables). Where ever hello is, it's probably not on the PATH so as kday has said use ./hello

The ./ tells bash to look in the current directory.