Changing directory

noteleks · 03-10-2011, 09:13 AM

I know that is a newbie question and I should have been able to figure it out by looking it up, but I don't seem to be able too. I was doing a tutorial on scripting in bash. I saved my file on the desktop and I cannot seem to get to that file to execute it. Here is what I have been using:

pwd and it gives me /home/me
I try cd Desktop says that there is no such directory.
I tried /home/me/Desktop same thing.

What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

andrewthomas · 03-10-2011, 09:16 AM

post the output of

Code:

ls -al

in your home directory

xeon123 · 03-10-2011, 09:17 AM

do 'ls' or 'ls -la' to list the directories.

If you've the command 'tree' installed, write 'tree'.

siranjeevi · 03-10-2011, 09:25 AM

Hi,

Try using the following command

Quote:

locate Desktop

You will get the absolute path to your Desktop folder, and then cd to that path.

noteleks · 03-10-2011, 09:28 AM

Thank you to all of you. I learned something there. Boy, sure do like LINUX much better than Windows too bad we have to use windows at work. But then again we would all be lost.

siranjeevi · 03-10-2011, 09:51 AM

Yeah,

Because the availability of softwares in windows makes the difference. Hope linux will also get all the softwares developed for windows soon.