"bash: hello: Command not found" error for hello.exe in present directory

[Cyber.Zombie]

Because unlike DOS and NT command shells, bash et.al. do NOT look for 
any executables in the current directory unless explicitly told to do so 
(by prepending './' to the command or adding '.' to the PATH).

Abhijit Patait wrote:

>I recently installed cygwin on my Windows XP machine.
>I wrote a simple "hello world" program and compiled
>and linked it using gcc to create an executable named
>"hello.exe" in a directory, named ~/hello/. However,
>when I type "hello.exe" on the command line (in the
>directory ~/hello/), I get a "bash: hello: command not
>found" error. I have verified that the file hello.exe
>exists in that directory.
>
>A workaround is that I have to issue a command
>"./hello" and then it works. Another workaround is
>that I append "./" to my path in the .bashrc file in
>my home directory and then it works too. Could someone
>shed light on what's going on? Why is the shell not
>able to look for the command in the present directory
>first?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
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