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No Permission to run C program

Asked by Bharat B. Sahni

I am not able to run the C Program

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Bharat B. Sahni (bharatbsahni-msn) said : 		#1

I am new for the Linux
I want to learn C Programming
I have installed build-essential
To run the following program I took the following steps;

In Terminal window;

1. Sudo gedit main.c
2. Wrote the follwong program in gedit main.c file;
 #include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("Hello, world\n");
return 0;
}
3. saved it
4. then wrote;
                  $ cc -c main.c
5.then wrote;
  ./main.c
6. I get the message;
     bash: ./main.c: Permission denied

Please help

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Best Karunesh Johri (kj-softprayog) said : 		#2

Skip the -c flag. Try

cc main.c
./a.out

The cc command compiles main.c into an executable file a.out by default. In case you want it to have another name,

cc main.c -o main
./main

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Bharat B. Sahni (bharatbsahni-msn) said : 		#3

Thanks, Karunesh,

This have sold the problem

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Bharat B. Sahni (bharatbsahni-msn) said : 		#4

Thanks Karunesh Johri, that solved my question.