How to pass arguments and redirect stdin from a file to program run in gdb?

Question

I usually run a program as :

./a.out arg1 arg2 <file

I would like to debug it using gdb.

I am aware of the set args functionality, but that only works from the gdb prompt.

Answer 1

You can do this:

gdb --args path/to/executable -every -arg you can=think < of

The magic bit being --args.

Just type run in the gdb command console to start debugging.