On 18 February 2010 16:37, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$. but in Places, desktop is spelt with an
Uppercase D. Does that make any difference. Can somebody explain what
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$ is/means?
On 18 February 2010 16:37, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$.
this is your username
@ ^ is your hostname.
You hostname is jakewc2-desktop.
/home/jakewc2/Desktop is a folder in your home
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 16:37 +, John Matthews wrote:
ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$. but in Places, desktop is spelt with an
Uppercase D. Does that make any difference. Can somebody explain what
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$ is/means? Maybe
Isn't jakewc2-desktop your machine's hostname?
What happens if you cd ~/Desktop ?
Charlie.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:37, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$. but in Places, desktop is spelt with an
Uppercase
Matt,
Matthew Daubney wrote:
the jake...@jakewc2-desktop bit of that prompt shows you the user you're
logged in as, followed by the hostname of your computer. The ~ really
means /home/jakewc2 . If you where to type cd Desktop you'd end up with
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~/Desktop$ The $ shows
Matthew Daubney
The $ shows that you
/don't/
have root priviledges, and the : is just a seperator :)
Sorry to be pedantic, but the missing word is quite important :)
jim
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On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 16:40 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18 February 2010 16:37, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$.
this is your username
@ ^ is your hostname.
You hostname is
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 18:08 +0100, jim.came...@buhlersortex.com wrote:
Matthew Daubney
The $ shows that you
/don't/
have root priviledges, and the : is just a seperator :)
Sorry to be pedantic, but the missing word is quite important :)
Indeed, apologies for that!
-Matt Daubney
Jim,
jim.came...@buhlersortex.com wrote:
Matthew Daubney
The $ shows that you
/don't/
have root priviledges, and the : is just a seperator :)
Sorry to be pedantic, but the missing word is quite important :)
See my previous post. I don't think the $ indicates anything about root
Just to emphasise - hostnames aren't case sensitive - file and
foldernames are :)
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
Sorry to be pedantic, but the missing word is quite important :)
Indeed, apologies for that!
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..oh and a # denotes root - $ denotes anything else
so if you sudo -i you'll see the prompt replaced with # :)
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Paul Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
Just to emphasise - hostnames aren't case sensitive - file and
foldernames are :)
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010
Traditionally in Unix $ denoted user, # denoted root.
Dunno how it works in Linux because in Ubuntu I tend to use sudo
rather than logging in directly, though I'd guess if I were in as root
I'd get a # prompt rather than a $ one - others can clarify
whether this is actually the case.
Sean
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Yes /Desktop is most definitely a different thing to /desktop
Sean
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On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:25 +, Sean Miller wrote:
Traditionally in Unix $ denoted user, # denoted root.
Dunno how it works in Linux because in Ubuntu I tend to use sudo
rather than logging in directly, though I'd guess if I were in as root
I'd get a # prompt rather than a $ one - others
Tony Arnold,
See my previous post. I don't think the $ indicates anything
about root privileges. The user can define their own prompt
and put whatever he/she likes in there!
You are of course perfectly right. By default, though, a # denotes root
privileges and a $ non-root, and I'm sure that
Sean Miller wrote:
Yes /Desktop is most definitely a different thing to /desktop
Sean
Not to mention if you're looking for the folder that relates to your own
desktop, it'll be in ~/Desktop or most probably /home/jakewc2/Desktop
Rob
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Rob Beard wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
Yes /Desktop is most definitely a different thing to /desktop
Sean
Not to mention if you're looking for the folder that relates to your own
desktop, it'll be in ~/Desktop or most probably /home/jakewc2/Desktop
Rob
Oh wow, thanks
Sounds to me like jakewc2-desktop is simply the name of your PC,
whereas the /Desktop is the path you're in...
If you imagine your machine was called Fred I'd guess that it'd be
in place of jakewc2-desktop and the Desktop path would be there the
same, less confusion!
Sean
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On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:51 +, John Matthews wrote:
Oh wow, thanks everybody for the replies, that has helped. I just
wondered then, what is the difference between the /desktop and
~/Desktop. Sorry for being so thick. Why is it used in the Terminal?
John,
Part of the confusion arises
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