Re: executing an executable
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Cole Radcliffe wrote: I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called executable.exe. I chmod to 777. Then I try to type execut and I press tab and it does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash says the command is not found! It works fine on cygwin-x. The FAQ is your friend: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.not-found. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
executing an executable
I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called executable.exe. I chmod to 777. Then I try to type execut and I press tab and it does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash says the command is not found! It works fine on cygwin-x. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: executing an executable
Cole Radcliffe wrote: I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called executable.exe. I chmod to 777. Then I try to type execut and I press tab and it does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash says the command is not found! It works fine on cygwin-x. Type ./executable or set your PATH variable to include . (the latter is usually not recommended, even in cygwin, I think). And try to read up about PATH. Regards -- Markus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
executing an executable
Cole Radcliffe wrote: I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called executable.exe. I chmod to 777. Then I try to type execut and I press tab and it does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash says the command is not found! It works fine on cygwin-x. Type ./executable or set your PATH variable to include . (the latter is usually not recommended, even in cygwin, I think). And try to read up about PATH. Regards -- Markus I tried set PATH=.:$PATH and that did not work. When I echoed the $PATH I realized that that command had no effect. What am I doing wrong? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: executing an executable
Cole Radcliffe wrote: Cole Radcliffe wrote: I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called executable.exe. I chmod to 777. Then I try to type execut and I press tab and it does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash says the command is not found! It works fine on cygwin-x. Type ./executable or set your PATH variable to include . (the latter is usually not recommended, even in cygwin, I think). And try to read up about PATH. Regards -- Markus I tried set PATH=.:$PATH and that did not work. When I echoed the $PATH I realized that that command had no effect. What am I doing wrong? You're using bash? Then don't use 'set'. The syntax is varname=string-expression Instead set somethings ... sets the argument vector [EMAIL PROTECTED] It pays to read an introductory text on using the shell. Use one for Linux if you like, the shell is the same. Else you'll be pretty unhappy really soon and back here when (a) You're using shell metacharacter somewhere, (b) you get quoting problems, (c) you need to redirekt I/O, (d) You got filenames with whitespace in them or '-' at the beginning, or (e) some other environment variable setting is wron -- just to name some of the common problems for shell beginners :-). And then I expect you'll get flamed sooner or later (more likely sooner) because this is OT and not cygwin specific and I get flamed and/or TITTTLed because I even answered. So really try to look for some documentation on this issues. Time is running out :-). Regards -- Markus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: executing an executable
On 2007-09-16, Cole Radcliffe wrote: Cole Radcliffe wrote: I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called executable.exe. I chmod to 777. Then I try to type execut and I press tab and it does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash says the command is not found! It works fine on cygwin-x. Type ./executable or set your PATH variable to include . (the latter is usually not recommended, even in cygwin, I think). And try to read up about PATH. Regards -- Markus I tried set PATH=.:$PATH and that did not work. When I echoed the $PATH I realized that that command had no effect. What am I doing wrong? Cygwin's default shell is bash and bash does not use 'set' to set environment variables. Just execute this: PATH=.:$PATH Regards, Gary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: executing an executable
Cole Radcliffe wrote: Type ./executable or set your PATH variable to include . (the latter is usually not recommended, even in cygwin, I think). And try to read up about PATH. Regards -- Markus I tried set PATH=.:$PATH and that did not work. When I echoed the $PATH I realized that that command had no effect. What am I doing wrong? BTW: Please consider improving you quoting. For a moment I thought my MUA had been acting up again and I sent a mail with your address in the From field. :-( Regards -- Markus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
re: executing an executable
Thanks. I set the PATH! You are definitely right about my quoting problem. MARKUS, you are definitely right about my quoting problem. I do not want to recieve so many e-mails so I do not subscribe to the list. I just copied and pasted it from the website. Is there an alternative? Can I make a folder with gmail that catches all of the cygwin e-mails? And then I expect you'll get flamed sooner or later (more likely sooner) because this is OT and not cygwin specific and I get flamed and/or TITTTLed because I even answered. What is OT and what do you mean this is not cygwin specific? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: executing an executable
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:48:45PM -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote: Thanks. I set the PATH! You are definitely right about my quoting problem. MARKUS, you are definitely right about my quoting problem. I do not want to recieve so many e-mails so I do not subscribe to the list. I just copied and pasted it from the website. Is there an alternative? Can I make a folder with gmail that catches all of the cygwin e-mails? And then I expect you'll get flamed sooner or later (more likely sooner) because this is OT and not cygwin specific and I get flamed and/or TITTTLed because I even answered. What is OT and what do you mean this is not cygwin specific? Markus has an overly active imagination about what constitutes a flame but what he is alluding to is that this mailing list is not designed to handle beginner shell questions or questions about how you should use your email client. For those type of discussions you should seek other forums since the discussions are Off Topic here. For shell questions you can go here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/ google could probably find other places also. I don't know about gmail but it does have its own help system so that's probably where you should start. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
