Hi Sarah, No, tab completion also works in the Terminal, there's something else going on here. Did you by any chance issue an ls command for the directory at all? This command woud list files, but not the number that you mentioned. Don't worry, we'll get you there eventually.
TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 25 Mar 2010, at 22:41, Sarah Alawami wrote: > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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