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Blaze Tama
Asked: 2013-11-05 02:01:33 +0800 CST

C printf not working on ubuntu 13.10 terminal

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I'm new in ubuntu so please bear with me.

I need to create a C based program for a course in my university. I was using openSUSE as the OS and konsole as the terminal emulator when I was in the university's lab.

So basically I need to install openSUSE on my system or use a VM to do so. But i feel lazy to do that, so I tried to run it on my Ubuntu instead of openSUSE.

However, no C code seems working on Ubuntu's terminal. The compiling is success, but its not running, or at least the printf is not running.

This is my code, a very very simple one :

#include<stdio.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    printf("test");
    return 0;
}

When I compile it with gcc test.c -o test everything works fine and i get an executable file.

Then I try to run it by ./test, but the printf is not printed. No error or warning was shown.

Am I missing something?

Note : my gcc is the new one, it should has no problem.

13.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Here is the output, of your program: enter image description here

    The text from printf ("test"); is printed and you can see it before the line shubham@shubham-pc:~$

    Since there is no \n in your program, a newline is not printed at end and hence the default line of console gets printed after it

    To solve this your program should look like:

    #include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    printf("%s \n","test");
    return 0;
}

    The thing I've done here is that, I used a format string (%s) to print test and added a newline (\n) after it.

    Here is the output after the edits:

    enter image description here

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