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Old 01-14-2011
Error help with simple terminal commands
i am at home with a windows xp home, and i am using putty terminal to access my linux mathlab account, my task is to compile and run a C program, called a.c,

i used
Code:
gcc -Wall -g -o mycode a.c

to compile it into a mycode file

now when i want to run it, i was told i had to use

Code:
$ mycode

or
Code:
$ ./mycode

but both of these dont work. How do i run the file now?

thanks
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 01-17-2011 at 05:44 PM..
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Old 01-14-2011
To check if the executable exists
Code:
ls -al mycode

If the executable bits are not set, use chmod to set them i.e.
Code:
chmod 755 mycode

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Old 01-17-2011
Another question ... what is the program supposed to do?
 
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