Hi All
I've used UNIX in the past experimenting with commands through terminal but thats about it. Im now currently teaching myself "C".
Using a book from the library, the first chapter asks you run and compile your program from a command-line prompt. As you will see the program is very simple, please see below, but I am scratching my head as to why there is any problem with this when running this through UNIX. I coded the below with a textEdit and I am also using Xcode and it builds succesfully, but when I put it through UNIX I get the following

./hello.c: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./hello.c: line 3: `int main (void)'

I have searched your forums and Google and although there is much regarding the title, none covers something so simple as this one. I would very much appreciate if you could advice me what this is?

Many thanks for your time and reading,
Camzio

Try this.

The code should work. Have you compiled your program?

First you have compile your program with:

And the you can run it with:

Regards

Franklin -

Some wierd compilers expect two arguments to main. It also could be a shell error, like you think.

Many thanks to all those who replied, it actually worked by using, as advised cc hello.c -o hello and then running ./hello the book says to type gcc -g -o hello hello.c. Once again thank you.