Get readline to work on nike: option 1: get the libraries via a package download package and install it in your homedirectory optoin 2: just log into one fo the cluster nodes on nike, see details on this below. While logged into nike log into one of the cluster nodes, cf1 - cf7 Example: {nike:maria:11} ssh maria@cf7.cs.uga.edu maria@cf7.cs.uga.edu's password: Last login: Tue Oct 28 17:17:42 2014 from nike.cs.uga.edu {cf7:maria:1} then go to the directory where you the shell skeleton, and make clean, make shell {cf7:maria:1} cd shellWithParser {cf7:maria:6} make clean rm -f shell *~ {cf7:maria:7} make shell gcc -lreadline -lcurses -g -l readline -l curses \ shell.c parse.c -o shell {cf7:maria:8}