Hi Sarah, First of all, if you are in your home directory you need to take the leading / off the path. / is the root directory and I don't think that's where you have your Pictures folder.
There are a couple of ways to get there: cd Pictures/"iphone pics" cd Pictures/iphone\ pics The best way is to use tab completion. When working with files and directories on the command line, tab completion is your friend. Just type enough of the letters of the path and hit tab. You may have to repeat it several times for a long path. Also, remember that it is case sensitive. the ~/Pictures starts with a capital p. Strictly speaking, unix is case sensitive. The file system that OS10 uses isn't, but the tab complete is. The command line has it's quarks and just takes a little practice. I think it is worth it though. Hope that helps. On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello. 'm truing to join to vids together with the cat command but my folder > name has spaces in it and no matter what i do I can't get the cd command to > change to the folder. I tried quotes and stuff. I even tried renaming the > folder and could not get there This is what I typed. > > cd /pictures/iphone pics > > and it could not find the directory. > > I typed then > > cd /pictures/iphone_pics > with and with out quotes and it didn't; find it either. > > what should I do here? I'm still learning this stuff. > > S > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
