Having trouble on two questions

asw225 · 02-21-2016, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fido_dogstoyevsky

You really need to have a working installation to play with because you won't learn without actually trying things out - what do you have available?

Keep doing this, and concentrate on the online documentation for your distribution.

How do you refer to a specific file in the current directory?

To get to the file I created I did cd Downloads. Then I could list using ls and it will show my files. I know if I want to edit I can type nano and then the file name saving an exiting is tricky. the terminal shows that I can do ^X to exit but it I don't think I am giving it that command correctly.

asw225 · 02-21-2016, 04:23 PM

@fido_dogstoyevsky

To get to the file I created I did cd Downloads. Then I could list using ls and it will show my files. I know if I want to edit I can type nano and then the file name saving an exiting is tricky. the terminal shows that I can do ^X to exit but it I don't think I am giving it that command correctly.

asw225 · 02-21-2016, 04:31 PM

Thanks everyone. I've downloaded a VM and am running Ubuntu. I think I have the ssh server process installed too.

erik2282 · 02-21-2016, 06:14 PM

go to google and search for changing directories in linux. read and absorb.

fido_dogstoyevsky · 02-21-2016, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by asw225

@fido_dogstoyevsky

To get to the file I created I did cd Downloads. Then I could list using ls and it will show my files. I know if I want to edit I can type nano and then the file name saving an exiting is tricky. the terminal shows that I can do ^X to exit but it I don't think I am giving it that command correctly.

OK, so to edit "this_text_file", which happens to be in the in the current directory, you

Code:

nano this_text_file

If you want to specify that you want to edit "this_text_file which is in the current directory" you

Code:

nano ./this_text_file

Note the different emphasis given by the quotes.

Reread two the suggestions given earlier in this thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by TxLonghorn

If you enter the command

Code:

ls -a

you will see that the first 2 things listed are:
.
..
The first one is the current folder. The second one (..) is the parent folder.

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

for the first question there are two answers
the relative $PATH
and
The absolute $PATH

jamison20000e · 02-21-2016, 11:37 PM

Do all distros have Nano? Like Vi.

fido_dogstoyevsky · 02-22-2016, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamison20000e

Do all distros have Nano? Like Vi.

It's "part of the GNU project", so probably yes.

jamison20000e · 02-22-2016, 03:34 AM

Cool, thanks! I recommend Aptitude after a netinst(++) easier than Apt but Vi I found first...

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