Simple error around which I can't wrap my head.

I installed Ubuntu in my PC a while ago and only now have I started programming in C.


So, I did as instructed:

use gedit to write the code, save it in .c format, open the terminal, write
$cc -c example.c
$cc -o pun pun.c
$./pun.c

But it doesn't work. It return an error that I didn't do.

No matter what my code is, it always this error:

Code:

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presidente@presidente-1005HA:~$ cc -c pun.c
presidente@presidente-1005HA:~$ cc -o pun pun.c
presidente@presidente-1005HA:~$ ./pun.c
./pun.c: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./pun.c: line 2: `int main(void){'
presidente@presidente-1005HA:~$

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The code hasn't got any errors or bugs whatsoever, so why does it always say "syntax error near unexpected token `(' "

You don't run the C source, you run "pun" itself (the executable you get from the second step).

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tabstop

You don't run the C source, you run "pun" itself (the executable you get from the second step).

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Silly me...

Thank you indeed!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by KAUFMANN

So, I did as instructed:
use gedit to write the code, save it in .c format, open the terminal, write
$cc -c example.c
$cc -o pun pun.c
$./pun.c

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Slight redundancy here... when you run cc -c example.c that gives you an object file, example.o, then you run cc -o pun pun.c (ignoring the newly created object file example.o) which compiles pun.c into pun (without the need of a 2 step object->link manual process using the -c parameter then linking)

Kinda odd that you are doing that?

Code:

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presidente@presidente-1005HA:~$ ./pun.c
./pun.c: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./pun.c: line 2: `int main(void){'
presidente@presidente-1005HA:~$

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To explain what is going on here is that the C source file is trying to be interpreted as a script by the default shell interpreter in your environment....

Whats really strange is that the source code has the executable bit set in the first place? What I mean is that you SHOULD
of gotten a Permission Denied error letting you know that executing that file is not allowed based on file permissions.