[ubuntu-users] Command not found

Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knugum at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 16:46:40 UTC 2012


2012/3/5 John Sampson <jrs.idx at ntlworld.com>:
> On 05/03/2012 13:46, Bert Swart wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:33:59PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5 March 2012 12:30, John Sampson<jrs.idx at ntlworld.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not knowing my situation you have no right to say that.
>>>>
>>>> So why is there no man page for cd?
>>>> What does the "~$" mean in the prompt?
>>>> I had typed "cd Downloads" among other guesses - for some reason
>>>> adding "/" to the end is the answer, the one I didn't guess.
>>>
>>> There should be no need for the trailing '/'.  Can you confirm that
>>> for you it is necessary?
>
> Tried again. Yes, it is necessary.
>
>
>> Perhaps show output from ls Downloads*
>
>
> This gives "ls: Cannot access Downloads*:  No such file or directory".
>
> Regards
>
> _John Sampson_

What happens if you use TAB (↹) for auto completion while typing (like
”cd Downl↹” or ”cd ↹↹”)? Does it suggest ”Downloads”, and if it does,
does it work when you hit ↵?
Can you show us the output of ls?


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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