undefined reference to `getline’ in c

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The other answers have covered most of this, but there are several problems. First, getline() is not in the C standard library, but is a POSIX 2008 extension. Normally, it will be available with a POSIX-compatible compiler, as the macros _POSIX_C_SOURCE will be defined with the appropriate values. You possibly have an older compiler from before getline() was standardized, in which case this is a GNU extension, and you must #define _GNU_SOURCE before #include <stdio.h> to enable it, and must be using a GNU-compatible compiler, such as gcc.

Additionally, nbytes should have type size_t, not int. On my system, at least, these are of different size, with size_t being longer, and using an int* instead of a size_t* can have grave consequences (and also doesn’t compile with default gcc settings). See the getline manual page (http://linux.die.net/man/3/getline) for details.

With that change made, your program compiles and runs fine on my system.

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