Something strange in the terminal

LinuxPadawan · 04-10-2005, 09:58 PM

There is something strange in the terminal. It seems that it just waits a split second and comes back with the same prompt. when I tryed installing a program I typed:

[user@localhost My documents]$ su –c”./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin”

I press enter and it shows this again.

[user@localhost My documents]$

Why?

nadroj · 04-10-2005, 10:17 PM

what does -c do? have you tried doing this without -c and without the quotes?

Code:

su ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin

what is the output from the following command:

Code:

ls /pathToParentFolder/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin

camelrider · 04-11-2005, 07:40 AM

I think the quotes are because the filename contains a space.

reddazz · 04-11-2005, 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by LinuxPadawan
There is something strange in the terminal. It seems that it just waits a split second and comes back with the same prompt. when I tryed installing a program I typed:

[user@localhost My documents]$ su –c”./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin”

I press enter and it shows this again.

[user@localhost My documents]$

Why?

Your command is almost right, you just need to put a space between "c" and the first quotation mark. eg

Code:

$su -c "./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin"