hello .

looks like you have solved the issue but im new to terminal and can't get it to work.. please could you help.

im typing in it shows me then adding some code and saving and i get this...

if i do i get:

im not sure why its path is acquia-drupal ?

any way.. how can i fix it

thanks

Are you trying to edit users or roots bash profile?
If your trying to edit roots bash profile then you need to be root or use sudo.

If ~/.bash_profile (users) is owned by root then use chown and change the owner to user.
http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/chown/

what is the output of
and

root or rather the owner of this file has read, write, execute permissions shown by rwx in the first 3 letters. whoami will tell who you are, do a to confirm the permissions on the file. login as root or move yourself to the sudoers to save to this file. use chmod.

Hello

Thankyou for your reply

if i do i get my name if i do i get if i do i get these

i'm trying to get Git Auto complete to work. so i'm doing the following:

i get this

root is the owner of the file.
Either edit it as root or change ownership to user. (rickyspires) Users bash profile should not be owned by root.

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Rick,

After editing with nano you cannot save what you modified because the .bash_profile is currently owned by the root. I assume, you are the owner of the computer, you have the root authority (if not then we cannot help.) What distro are you operating in? You should have given that detail first so that your friends here can easily help you.

Assuming you are running an ubuntu, you can do this right there in the /home/rickyspires folder:

(( You can then enter your own password when asked ))

Followed by this:

If you are not running a sudo distro you may first obtain root authority by

(( enter the "root" password not your rickyspires password ))

Then you can proceed to alter the ownership and permission by issuing above commands without prefixing them with sudo.

You can now edit and save your changes of the file.

Hope that helps and goodluck.

hi all.

think its working now.

all i did was type sudo su and enter my password. i could then enter code into the bash_profile file and it saved fine


thanks teckk and malekmustaq.

its a bit odd, if i input it tells me . its my computer and it only has 1 password as far as i know.

thanks
rick

If you are using Ubuntu or one of its derivatives, you get root privileges when you prefix a command with sudo and enter the password for the primary user.