Re: Compiled programs fail to run from Cygwin Terminal, but work from windows cmd

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> 
> STOP PRESS: in gdb, the output IS there:
> User-PC-> gdb hello.exe
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> Reading symbols from hello.exe...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /home/User/c_dir/hello.exe
> [New Thread 6868.0x5b0]
> [New Thread 6868.0x18dc]
> [New Thread 6868.0x1990]
> Hello, world!
> [Thread 6868.0x1990 exited with code 0]
> [Inferior 1 (process 6868) exited normally]
> (gdb)
> 
> Which is dandy, but then why, outside of gdb, is there nothing at all?
> Still stumped!

Is your prompt overwriting the output of the program?

Try:

$ hello | cat
$ hello | grep ello

etc.

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