---
name: "open-cobol"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "open-cobol"
version: "1.1-2+b1"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/open-cobol"
---

# open-cobol(1)

COBOL compiler

## NAME

open-cobol - COBOL compiler

## SYNOPSIS

**cobc** \[*options*\] *files*...\
 **cobcrun**  program \[ arguments to program \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cobc** and **cobcrun** commands.

**cobc** is the COBOL compiler.

**cobcrun** is a driver program to run COBOL programs compiled as modules.

## OPTIONS

The **cobc** program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **--version**

  Show version of program.

## SEE ALSO

info open-cobol\
 http://www.opencobol.org/\

## AUTHOR

open-cobol was written by Keisuke Nishida \<knishida@netlab.jp\>.

This manual page was written by Bart Martens \<bart.martens@advalvas.be\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).