Ian, Thanks for the help. You are correct and I am obviously a real 'newbie'. I'll try to avoid wasting everyone's time with these elementary questions. Thanks again Ron Ian Lance Taylor-3 wrote: > > rmodesi <rmodesi@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> I am a newbie to both Linux and C programming in Linux. >> My gcc compiler produces the file hello* after executing the command: >> gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello >> Bash will not execute this program. > > Note that you probably see the '*' because you are using ls -F, > perhaps through an alias. "man ls" for details on -F. > > Ian > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/debian-gcc-produces-hello*-tf3919460.html#a11142482 Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.