gary hiebner;
Then I type the >chuck in Terminal
I just noticed this and the "greater than" symbol in it. At the risk of stating the obvious; you wouldn't type that symbol, just the command "chuck" (without quotes). The symbol ">" is sometimes used to represent the prompt, probably because that's how a typical dos/windows setup represents it (preceded by the name of the dir we are in), I don't see it in my terminal on Linux and I don't think Mac uses it. Let's have a exageratedly detailed look at me running chuck in that way, copied straight from my BASH terminal;
ghost@baido:~$ chuck
[chuck]: no input files... (try --help)
In the first line we see "ghost", that's my login.
"baido" refers to the name of the computer (I'm a R-type fan, you see).
The "@" means I'm loged in on this computer (that's no big news but I might use the same login on multiple systems)
The "~" is a shorthand for my home dir so in this case that refers to "/home/ghost/"
The "$" means I'm a ordinary user and not root. If I were root it would instead be a "#".