Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Hadder
Sarah, Hit control-c to shut down the cat util. It doesn't mater if a file name has spaces. you can saround it with quotes, escape the space with \, or use tab. The tab completion applies at any time. The cat command expects a file name, and if it doesn't have one in it's parameter list it

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
I did. Now I can't get the cat command to work. it sits there with no output or errors Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Mark Burni

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Can you rename it in finder? Find the folder from finder, press Enter, and give it a name without spaces? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message b

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok got the tab command to work. now to get the cat command to work. The file names have spaces in them so I assume I surround them with quotes? S Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http:

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-18 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm when I tab after typing some of the path I get a ding. I'll keep trying. Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:

Re: the cat and cd commands

2010-08-17 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi Sarah, First of all, if you are in your home directory you need to take the leading / off the path. / is the root directory and I don't think that's where you have your Pictures folder. There are a couple of ways to get there: cd Pictures/"iphone pics" cd Pictures/iphone\ pics The best

the cat and cd commands

2010-08-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. 'm truing to join to vids together with the cat command but my folder name has spaces in it and no matter what i do I can't get the cd command to change to the folder. I tried quotes and stuff. I even tried renaming the folder and could not get there This is what I typed. cd /pictures/i