Hey guys.

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Preface: Ubuntu 8.10: I've been doing a lot of tinkering with various software lately, but I haven't (deliberately or directly) made modifications to any system files except /etc/fstab
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I'm currently having an issue with operating in bash via either PuTTY or xterm. I'm fully willing to believe that I caused the change by doing something I didn't mean to, but I really am unclear as to what I did or how to fix it.

Here's the problem: commands that I try to execute in Bash seem to be looking at a different directory than my working directory. Take a look at this sample output:

As you can see, I am in a directory with one item that starts with a capital T, which is Templates, but when I type a 'T' and hit tab, I get Thunar. I also can't seem to execute CideroApps_unix_1_5_3.sh with ./ when I'm in that directory (although I could be mistaken about ./ as the way to execute .sh files).

I'm pretty lost about what I need to do, because I'm not clear on how I got myself here. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and I can gladly provide more information if it might be useful.

Thanks!

This is because bash is looking for an executable file in it's path. You need to tell bash what you want to do to a regular file before hitting tab. For example, to edit Templates you would type gedit T then hit tab. To change directory you would do cd T then tab etc.

To execute a file in the current directory you need to do the ./"command". The CideroApps_unix_1_5_3.sh file is probably not set to executable. Do a chmod 755 CideroApps_unix_1_5_3.sh then try again.

when you type T then hit tab the bash looks for a bin execute file hence /bin/bash and Thunar is a executable file in any file named bin. thunar so if you have a litle file and turn it to a executable chmod -x-a your file or open with a gui and set permission to executable. sence it is not in a bin folder you will have to type ./your file name. or sh your file name.if it was in bin or /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or any folder you name bin the if the file is in a folder owned by root you will need to have SU privaledges to execute it and the bash will not see it. but if the folder is set to -x-a all users then you can type it and run it. in a terminal. hope this helped please go to unix comands and

Thanks for the help! I still need to learn my way around bash

Hi,

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The ground has been pretty well covered, but the thing is:
"Thunar" is an executable.
"Templates" is a Sub-Directory containing templates for your use.
$ T (tab) gets the executable, not the Directory.