In Linux, if you want to run an exectutable, called "test", from the current directory, why must you must run it as ./test and not just test?
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Becuase the current directory, i.e. ".", is not included as one of the directories in the PATH, due to security reasons.
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In Linux, if you want to run an exectutable, called "test", from the current directory, why must you must run it as ./test and not just test?
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In Linux, if you want to run an exectutable, called "test", from the current directory, why must you must run it as ./test and not just test?
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Becuase the current directory, i.e. ".", is not included as one of the directories in the PATH, due to security reasons.
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