Running an executable in Mac Terminal

Question

I just made a  c file and compiled it with gcc in the terminal on OS X 10 8 2    My syntax was gcc -o  lt filename gt   lt sourcefile gt  and that was fine  Now I see I have an executable and file  lt filename gt  tells me as such  but I m not sure how to actually run it beside double clicking the icon   lame  When I try running the executable by just typing  I get command not found  but I thought it was executable      Thank you    EDIT  I m so stupid  it was just open  lt filename gt

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To run an executable in mac   1   Move to the path of the file   cd PATH OF THE FILE   2   Run the following command to set the file s executable bit using the chmod command   chmod  x   NAME OF THE FILE   3   Run the following command to execute the file     NAME OF THE FILE   Once you have run these commands  going ahead you just have to run command 3  while in the files path

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Unix will only run commands if they are available on the system path  as you can view by the  PATH variable  echo  PATH   Executables located in directories that are not on the path cannot be run unless you specify their full location  So in your case  assuming the executable is in the current directory you are working with  then you can execute it as such    my-exec   Where my-exec is the name of your program

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