Terminal

[anthony baldwin]

sg1 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.
> 

There is no root account ~ or /home/root, and thus the confusion.
If you are using root/sudo su, you will have to use the complete file 
path (/home/you/Desktop).
But why are you doing this is su, anyway?
Can't you move stuff as joenormaluser?
Then the ~ would work.

/tony
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