How to solve error message "gcc‬: command not found" (only with arguments) on Ubuntu

Question

I am working with Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo), and I have GCC installed.

When I run

gcc

I am getting an error showing that I do have gcc:

gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated.

When I am running gcc with arguments like this

gcc‬‬ ‫‪-g‬‬ ‫‪-m32‬‬ ‫‪-o‬‬ ‫‪skip‬‬ ‫‪skip.c‬‬

I am getting

gcc‬‬: command not found

I've ran

apt-get purge gcc
apt-get install build-essential

And still I am getting the same error.

Answer 1

Your line

gcc?? ??-g?? ??-m32?? ??-o?? ??skip?? ??skip.c

is ASCII broken. There are strange (invisible) characters before the spaces. Check it here.

Also, to run gcc with -m32 flag on, you need to install gcc-multilib first:

apt-get install gcc-multilib