I've been working and learning the Unix environment for almost a year now and I can offer some tips based on how I've learned.
First, get some books on the Unix system. There are books that deal with the Mac OS X unix base which will teach you a lot. No need to spend money either. Your local library should have something available. OR there are good FREE materials all over the internet--too much to read in a lifetime. But you need to know the basic commands and tools. Stay with it and you will be able to do things way quicker and with much less effort. For your specific question: The .profile you asked about... You can edit your .bashrc file and achieve the same results. This is like a personal preferences file. The PATH directive tells your terminal/shell where to look for programs and utilities. It saves you from having to type out the absolute path every time. If you are new to the command line you might have a tough time with the 'vi' (vim) editor the screencast used. And a tougher time with 'emacs'. If you have no idea what I'm talking about that is fine. As a vim user I cannot recommend highly enough that you type in 'vimtutor' and go through the 30 minute hands-on tutorial on the vim editor--this editor is on every unix/linux/bsd machine in the world. Leopard uses the BASH shell (Bourne Again SHell) by default. It is the most common environment I've seen so far, learn it and you'll be good 99% of the time. Learn the .bashrc directives. Google it. I've not messed with Cake very much but I happened to check this thread today. Your other options are Ruby on Rails which is already set up in Leopard. Those are my tips. Your welcome. On Jan 22, 10:28 am, longint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make that two Leopard folks. I'll be watching this thread. > > On Jan 22, 10:13 am, martinp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> There's what appears > to be a very good screencast on the cakephp site > > about how to configure Unix so that you can run Cake from the command > > line. That is, until right at the beginning the author asks you to > > edit the .profile file, or whatever your equivalent file is. At that > > point I'm lost. I don't appear to have a .profile file as if I follow > > his instructions I'm told I'm writing a new file. I'm new to Macs and > > certainly new to using the command line. It also makes me a little bit > > nervous poking around under the hood. > > > So can anyone give me any pointers? I'm currently unable to run cake > > or bake from the command line as it can't find the file (changing the > > directory to cake/console doesn't appear to work either), but I don't > > know how to change the relevant settings using Terminal. > > > I appreciate that this isn't a Cake problem really, but I'd be > > grateful for any help. Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
