Typing program name at Terminal prompt in Linux, is not running the prog!

[LoveJones]

I am doing a little refresher self-study of C++ before school starts on Friday.

I just successfully compiled my program and renamed the output to "orc."

I am not sure if that was an important file I over-wrote, or if there is something else I am doing, because if I type "orc," at the command prompt it gives me the error that the command cannot be found.

bash: orc: command cannot be found

Or something to that effect.

I even tried renaming the output to other names and nothing works. I even compiled and let it name the file the default name "a.out" and that doesn't run either.

This is my exact syntax...

g++ orc.cpp -o orc

I have been able to run the program using gdb.

Any and all help or suggestions much appreciated. I am still pretty green to Linux so it might be a simple problem. And just to be clear I am working in the same directory the entire time.

[TMAN]

you must type ./orc for it to work. orc implies it is a registered system command. HTH

[LoveJones]

OK, I will give that a try.

Maybe it's been a while but when I was programming in c, I simply had to type the name, but that makes sense!

Thanks for your help!!

[LoveJones]

Just to follow up, your suggestion worked! Thank you very much! =)

[aym]

Originally posted by LoveJones OK, I will give that a try. Maybe it's been a while but when I was programming in c, I simply had to type the name, but that makes sense! Thanks for your help!!

This has nothing to do with C programming, in Linux CLI if you want to execute a file, either its path should be in the PATH env variable, so you simply type its name and hit enter, or you should be in its directory and type ./filename and hit enter.
In DOS, no need for the ./