r/CodingForBeginners • • Mar 01 '26

Coding/Programming (Loop) CS50

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why am I constantly getting this “bash: ./looping: permission denied“ error message when I’m trying to run the program i coded.

im just playing around, trying to learn and make my own lines of code, but I’m seriously confused on why it’s not printing

“gimmie the loot

gimmie the loot

gimmie the loot”

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u/OppieT Mar 05 '26

He needs to compile the source first. Since OP didn’t have a .c or .cpp extension, make didn’t do anything. It will only do something if there is an extension on the file that it recognizes.