maybe I did something wrong but I was only trying what I had done inwindows many a time. hit for example C:\ tabbing and then cd\ when I'm done finding the directory. On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:43 PM, James & Nash wrote:
> That's very weird. Let me get back to you on that. > > TC > James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny > On 25 Mar 2010, at 18:16, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> No I did cd ~/solona and tabbed and it asked to display all 19000 items. I >> sayd yes to see what would happen. >> wowza is alll I can say. lol. so what did I do wrong besides saying yes? >> and going crazy? lol. >> On Mar 25, 2010, at 3:17 AM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> Hi Chris & Sarah, >>> >>> I think I read that Sarah placed a period before Solona, which (for Sarah's >>> benefit), will show a number of system files which are generally hidden. >>> But the figure of 14000 is very high >>> >>> TC >>> James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny >>> On 25 Mar 2010, at 06:05, Chris Blouch wrote: >>> >>>> 14000 files? If you are in your home directory there should only be a >>>> handful such as Movies, Music, Downloads etc. Once in your solona folder >>>> there could be lots of files and folders, but unless it's really poorly >>>> organized it shouldn't be that many. >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>>> Oh when I tried that it asked if I wanted to desplay all 14000 or so >>>>> items. lol. but I am not familar with linux at all btw. >>>>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> It's the same as pretty much any unix shell. So when you first fire up >>>>>> terminal you are already in your home directory. Not sure where you put >>>>>> this solona folder but it it's in your home directory you can just do >>>>>> >>>>>> cd solona >>>>>> >>>>>> with no slashes. If it's on your desktop you'll first want to cd to >>>>>> that. Note that unix is case sensitive so you'll want to cd Desktop with >>>>>> a capital D. Also you can take advantage of some nice autocomplete stuff >>>>>> with the tab key. So you could just type cd De then tab and it will fill >>>>>> in Desktop, assuming you don't have multiple files with that name. >>>>>> >>>>>> CB >>>>>> >>>>>> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm trying to change to a directory in my home folder. I've tried cd >>>>>>> /solona cd ./solona and what ever I could think of. I can't get this to >>>>>>> work. I'm trying to install the solona script but working width the >>>>>>> command line in mac is just a bit different then n windows. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> S >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries@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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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.
