text - C file not reading properly -

when run following command in command terminal: gcc practice.c temp.txt

i following error:

/usr/local/binutils/2.21/bin/ld:temp.txt: file format not recognized; treating linker script /usr/local/binutils/2.21/bin/ld:temp.txt:1: syntax error collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 

here c code:

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h>  #define max_len 1024  int main(int argc, char **argv) {   file *file;   char line[max_len];   float value = 0;    file = fopen(argv[1], "r");    while (fgets(line, max_len, file) != null) {     sscanf(line, "%f", &value);     printf("%f\n", value);   }    fclose(file);    return 0; } 

basically trying read numbers in file , print them out. simple.

for example, temp.txt like:

10 26 27 52 242

(these numbers should in column)

and forth.

use gcc compile executable, , run executable on input file afterwards. error b/c gcc trying compile test.txt c source code.

so:

gcc practice.c -o practice ./practice test.txt