Through Terminal cant change directories
Toby Kelsey
toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com
Sun Jan 22 18:51:37 UTC 2006
J.Markoll wrote:
> Sasha Tsykin a écrit :
>
>> Wade Smart wrote:
>>
>>> 01192006 1840 GMT-6
>>> Im trying to get into a directory but for some reason I get
>>> bash: cd: Video: No such file or directory
>>> But when I use the ls command I can see the directory but I still
>>> cant access it. The permissions are the same as all the other
>>> directories.
>>
>> data corruption maybe.
>
> Sometimes a mistake such as 'cd /Video' can produce this kind of result.
> J.M.
The name may contain non-printing characters or trailing spaces.
What is the output of the following command?
/bin/ls -1 | egrep '^V' | od -c
and this one?
file V*
If it is the only thing in the parent directory starting with V, try
cd V*
and if that works, rename it:
cd ..; mv V* Video
Toby
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