Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread g
On 08/03/2014 04:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 15:25 -0500, g wrote: "cd /.../" is not legal. It's perfectly legal. Whether it means anything or not depends on the existence or otherwise of a directory called "/..." (the closing '/' is ignored). The only system-rese

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, JD wrote: /snip/ Well don't leave us all hanging! Tell us what the problem was! --doug Perhaps the OP is just too embarrassed? :) :) Been there, done that... billo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 15:25 -0500, g wrote: > "cd /.../" is not legal. It's perfectly legal. Whether it means anything or not depends on the existence or otherwise of a directory called "/..." (the closing '/' is ignored). The only system-reserved names are '/', '.' and '..'. Anything else is lega

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/03/2014 01:25 PM, g wrote: "cd /.../" is not legal. I don't think that the OP actually used that; he was just using as a shorthand for an unspecified directory. ]$ cd ... bash: cd: ...: No such file or directory ]$ Not always. ... is a valid name for a file or directory

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread g
On 08/03/2014 02:01 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi I need to go inside a directory named ; but I am not able to do it. Using the command cd /.../notebook-source I get the output : "no such file or directory" "cd /.../" is not legal. in using "/" you specify the root path. in using "..." t

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread JD
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Doug wrote: > > On 08/03/2014 06:54 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> I got good advice from you and I know, now, what the problem is. >> >> I am having difficulty also with the internet connection and for this I >> cannot continue to use your help. >> As

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread JD
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 03/08/14 08:01, Angelo Moreschini scribbled ... > >> I need to go inside a directory named ; >> but I am not able to do it. > > > An addendum to Joachim's suggestion: possibly try > > ls -d notebook* | od -tx1 > > .. to look for

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Doug
On 08/03/2014 06:54 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: hi, I got good advice from you and I know, now, what the problem is. I am having difficulty also with the internet connection and for this I cannot continue to use your help. As well I think I can solve my problem. Thank you Regards Angelo

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Angelo Moreschini
hi, I got good advice from you and I know, now, what the problem is. I am having difficulty also with the internet connection and for this I cannot continue to use your help. As well I think I can solve my problem. Thank you Regards Angelo On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Dave Mitchell wrot

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 12:03:35PM +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I tried > ls -d notebook* | od -tx1 > > the result is : > 000 62 6f 74 65 42 6f 6f 6b5f 696e 73 74 61 6c 6c > 020 61 74 69 6f 6e 0a > 026 That makes no sense. Did you cut-and-paste that, or type it in by hand? If the

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 12:03:35 +0300 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > On 08/03/2014 09:01 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > > Hi > > > > I need to go inside a directory named ; you have to use backslash to do escaping cd notebook\-source but may be you have some extra blank char after source try to use tab

no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Angelo Moreschini
On 08/03/2014 09:01 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi > > I need to go inside a directory named ; > but I am not able to do it. > > Using the command cd /.../notebook-source Hi Angelo, probably: cd ~/notebook-source, or directly: cd notebook-source??? What do you mean by "/.../"? I guess, the l

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 03/08/14 08:01, Angelo Moreschini scribbled ... I need to go inside a directory named ; but I am not able to do it. An addendum to Joachim's suggestion: possibly try ls -d notebook* | od -tx1 .. to look for funny alternate characters. Maybe the hyphen is some funky Unicode

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Joachim Backes
On 08/03/2014 09:26 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 08/03/2014 09:01 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: >> Hi >> >> I need to go inside a directory named ; >> but I am not able to do it. >> >> Using the command cd /.../notebook-source >> I get the output : >> "no such file or directory" >> ---

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Joachim Backes
On 08/03/2014 09:01 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi > > I need to go inside a directory named ; > but I am not able to do it. > > Using the command cd /.../notebook-source > I get the output : > "no such file or directory" > --- > I tried to go around to the problem using the comman

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Joachim Backes
On 08/03/2014 09:01 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi > > I need to go inside a directory named ; > but I am not able to do it. > > Using the command cd /.../notebook-source Hi Angelo, probably: cd ~/notebook-source, or directly: cd notebook-source??? What do you mean by "/.../"? I guess,

no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi I need to go inside a directory named ; but I am not able to do it. Using the command cd /.../notebook-source I get the output : "no such file or directory" --- I tried to go around to the problem using the command ls : if I use the command : (using the wildchar *) then I get the cor