Help on Path

tarzan538 · 03-28-2012, 02:13 PM

The problem I am having not knowing much about Linux is the following;

In my home directory ("wpollock" on website) I have a text file called "resort". I am trying to read this file and I know that I need a pathname but not sure how to do this. I kept getting "access denied" when I do this;

/HOME/wpollock/resort--can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?

T3RM1NVT0R · 03-28-2012, 03:35 PM

Hi tarzan538,

Welcome to LQ!!!

You can read a file in your home directory using any of the following ways:

1.

Code:

less /home/wpollock/resort

2.

Code:

more /home/wpollock/resort

3.

Code:

cat /home/wpollock/resort

Remember that in last option you will not get option to scroll. So I would suggest you to choose either first or second option. I have noticed that you used /HOME. Remember linux is case sensitive so be careful when you give path. It should be /home instead of /HOME

tarzan538 · 03-28-2012, 03:47 PM

I will try it ASAP and post back!