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anthony baldwin photodharma at gmail.com
Sat May 16 20:59:05 UTC 2009


NoOp wrote:
> On 05/16/2009 01:03 PM, anthony baldwin wrote:
>> sg1 wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Trying to move from sg1 to desktop what is the exact command.
>>> The below lines did not work.
>>>
>>> Thanks 
>>>
>>> root at sg1-desktop:/home/sg1# cd ~/Desktop
>>> bash: cd: /root/Desktop: No such file or directory
>>> root at sg1-desktop:/home/sg1# 
>>>
>>>
>> Didn't we go throught this already?
>> There is no /root/Desktop directory.
>> stop trying to do this as root, or give the full path.
>>
>> cd /home/yourusername/Desktop
>>
>> /tony
>>
> 
> Well... actually there is *if* root user is enabled - here is mine:


Yeah, but that's a rare case, and, perhaps I shouldn't assume, but I 
rather doubt this n00b has enabled root user.
He already asked the same question before, and it was thoroughly 
answered, in all truth.

/tony

> 
> root@<user>:~# ls
> Desktop  Documents  Music  PDF  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
> root@<user>:~# cd ~/Desktop
> root@<user>:~/Desktop# ls
> gcalctool.desktop  turboprint.desktop  turboprint-monitor.desktop
> root@<user>:~/Desktop#
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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