Re: Error while running a .exe file in bash

Re: Error while running a .exe file in bash

[Kishen Bahudhanam]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue. The
problem is resolved if I use: ./tx.exe.
I still don't understand the error message though.
If bash is not able to find the program, then filename
completion shouldn't work, isn't it? For example if I
just type:
    >. t
bash completes the file name to tx.exe (this is the
only executable in the current directory starting with
t).

To make it actually run, I need to type:
   >./tx.exe

Thanks again to everyone.

--- Kishen Bahudhanam <galtj67@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I see a couple of messages on this topic, but
> couldn't
> figure out what to do. So sending the question
> again:
> 
> I compiled my code using gcc, and created a .exe
> file.
> However, when I try to execute it, I get the
> following
> error:
> MZ?: command not found.
> However, I can open a 'cmd' window, and run the
> .exe.
> 
> I am under Win2000. Here is the .exe's attributes,
> and
> the output when I run the exe. 
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 jgalt mkpasswd   455026 Sep 25 12:29
> tx.exe*
> /c/Model>. tx.exe
> bash: MZ?: command not found
> 
> Please help...
> 
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Re: Error while running a .exe file in bash

[Brian Dessent]

Kishen Bahudhanam wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue. The
> problem is resolved if I use: ./tx.exe.
> I still don't understand the error message though.
> If bash is not able to find the program, then filename
> completion shouldn't work, isn't it? For example if I
> just type:
>     >. t
> bash completes the file name to tx.exe (this is the
> only executable in the current directory starting with
> t).
> 
> To make it actually run, I need to type:
>    >./tx.exe

Typing ". file" at a bash prompt means "read the file and execute the
commands stored within", which means bash will open the file and try to
execute its contents as if you'd typed them at the prompt.  That is NOT
what you want for an .EXE file, it only works for shell scripts.  To run
a normal executable you just give its name and bash runs it.  In the
case of an executable in the current directory, this is normally not in
the path and so you need to specify "./file" to tell bash to look in the
current directory which is ".".  Those are two completely different uses
of "." though.

Brian

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Re: Error while running a .exe file in bash

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:17:59AM -0700, Kishen Bahudhanam wrote:
> I see a couple of messages on this topic, but couldn't
> figure out what to do. So sending the question again:
> 
> I compiled my code using gcc, and created a .exe file.
> However, when I try to execute it, I get the following
> error:
> MZ?: command not found.
> However, I can open a 'cmd' window, and run the .exe.
> 
> I am under Win2000. Here is the .exe's attributes, and
> the output when I run the exe. 
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 jgalt mkpasswd   455026 Sep 25 12:29
> tx.exe*
> /c/Model>. tx.exe
> bash: MZ?: command not found

Try ./tx.exe

Corinna

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Error while running a .exe file in bash

[Kishen Bahudhanam]

I see a couple of messages on this topic, but couldn't
figure out what to do. So sending the question again:

I compiled my code using gcc, and created a .exe file.
However, when I try to execute it, I get the following
error:
MZ?: command not found.
However, I can open a 'cmd' window, and run the .exe.

I am under Win2000. Here is the .exe's attributes, and
the output when I run the exe. 

-rwxr-xr-x    1 jgalt mkpasswd   455026 Sep 25 12:29
tx.exe*
/c/Model>. tx.exe
bash: MZ?: command not found

Please help...

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