LINUX ADMINISTRATION NOTES & CODE SNIPPETS

Here is how you can create linux hello world program. First make sure that you have gcc ( c programming language compiler ) package installed. On debian or on ubuntu you would do:

apt-get install gcc

save this code as linux_program_hello.c

#include
#include
int main()
{
printf("My First Linux Program - Hello World\n");
exit(0);
}

now its compile time:

gcc -o linux_program_hello linux_program_hello.c

run your first c program:

./linux_program_hello

this should produce:

My First Linux Program - Hello World

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