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I'm completely new to linux and was trying to setup my vi .profile ... and I think I might have linked it wrong.
The thing is, now I'm trying to get in to change it, and I can't get back into it. I used the command vi. profile again, but this time around, I get the error
Tried what you said but I'm getting the following msg. I'm afraid I'll mess up my computer so I apologize in advance for the silly questions
what exactly does it mean?
i typed ...
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin
vi .profile
it returned ...
E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name ".profile.swp"
While opening file ".profile"
dated: Fri Nov 20 00:27:46 2009
NEWER than swap file!
(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
different instances of the same file when making changes.
Quit, or continue with caution.
(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r .profile"
to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").
If you did this already, delete the swap file ".profile.swp"
to avoid this message.
I'm trying to link bake actually, part of the features of cakePHP. mySQL is linked properly.
Something is wrong with my cake link ... if you can advise, please feel free
entered:
cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/
htdocs Sam$ cake bake testsite
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