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[Ashley Benton]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM, sg1 <thedoctor at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Moving from director to directory I am using cd ~/name of director the
> terminal is not recognising  the "~" for some reason.'
>
> sg1 at sg1-desktop:~$ sudo su
> root at sg1-desktop:/home/sg1# cd ~/Desktop
> bash: cd: /root/Desktop: No such file or directory
> root at sg1-desktop:/home/sg1#
>
> For example trying to move from sg1 to desktop and back again, no luck
> so far.
>
>
> I would think it is because ~/Desktop
the desktop is in home not in directly in root.
For the other issue I am sorry I don't know

~/ means /home/username/

Meg


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