Through Terminal cant change directories
Filipe Bonjour
fbonjour at urbanet.ch
Sun Jan 22 22:08:20 UTC 2006
Hi,
Assuming you didn't just make a typo (Video instead of video for
instance, always possible with unaware Windows users) and that "Video"
is a directory (not just a file), there are still several explanations:
1. There's a hidden character in the name. Try listing with "ls -b" to
see hidden characters. Also try using the TAB key to auto-complete. This
may complete names with hidden characters in it (not sure) if you want
to rename the directory.
2. Similarly (kind of), there may be a space in the directory name. In
some occasions, (e.g., if you're using a bash script with "for file in
`ls`" and one of the files has a space) that will fail because the loop
will pick each word of the file name separately.
3. I have seen some files show up in "ls" but not in "ls -l" listings.
Check with ls -l, not just ls. I can't remember when that happens, though...
Other than these ideas, we need more information.
Filipe
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Filipe Bonjour
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