<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM, sg1 <<a href="mailto:thedoctor@iinet.net.au">thedoctor@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Moving from director to directory I am using cd ~/name of director the terminal is not recognising the "~" for some reason.' sg1@sg1-desktop:~$ sudo su root@sg1-desktop:/home/sg1# cd ~/Desktop bash: cd: /root/Desktop: No such file or directory root@sg1-desktop:/home/sg1# For example trying to move from sg1 to desktop and back again, no luck so far. </blockquote><div>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/ </div><div> Meg </div> </div> -- <a href="http://galjovid.homelinux.com">http://galjovid.homelinux.com</a> Ecology, health and diet articles <a href="http://aelyra.homelinux.com">http://aelyra.homelinux.com</a> A site for dogs lover <a href="http://kantli.homelinux.com">http://kantli.homelinux.com</a> Make money from home