I am not able to compile codes.

Question

I am using Ubuntu 18.04. From two days I am unable to compile programs earlier it was working perfectly. I am getting the following error :

g++ -Wall -fexceptions -g -c /home/night_fury/codes/code::blocks/sum&product/main.cpp -o obj/Debug/main.o
/bin/sh: 1: product/main.cpp: not found
g++: error: /home/night_fury/codes/code::blocks/sum: No such file or directory
g++: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
Process terminated with status 127 (0 minute(s), 0 second(s))
2 error(s), 0 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 0 second(s))

Please help if anyone know what this is.

Answer 1

Might have to do with the ampersand (&) in sum&product. Rename the folder and try again

Answer 2

the problem is with that ampersand only, all other codes are working fine and I made another code now that also worked but only that “sum&product” is giving this error.. I tried with giving space between the words and it worked fine.->”sum & product”. Also I tried it like this “sum\&product” this way it is not even opening the main file. Is this a bug or something ? 🤔

Answer 3

okay thanks for the help Anna

Answer 4

Anna nope it didnt work
AgentSmith permission is set to 755 for all files and I never changed location of any file or folder everything is default

Answer 5

Make sure each folder / file is where it should be. Also make sure everything has proper permissions set.

Answer 6

That's weird. I just tried to recreate the error on Ubuntu. When I try to open a file test.dat that is in a directory named "sum&product", the "&" is automatically escaped with "\&": nano sum\&product/test.dat

If I remove the "\", it says "file not found".

Answer 7

It might be because an unescaped "&" means that you want to run the process in the background or something like that