Ok got the tab command to work. now to get the cat command to work. The file names have spaces in them so I assume I surround them with quotes?
S Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
