Problem finding my folder via terminal

Tamara Berger brgrt2 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 10:23:56 EDT 2018


Nope. No duplicate folder.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:35 AM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>
> On 08Jun2018 01:52, Tamara Berger <brgrt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >In answer to your comments, I am in the correct folder. But the "ls"
> >command did not return any files. Did I enter the command incorrectly?
> >Or are the files not recognized? Here is what I typed into terminal:
> >
> >"Last login: Fri Jun  8 01:40:07 on ttys001
> >192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules
> >192:mymodules TamaraB$ pwd
> >/Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules
> >192:mymodules TamaraB$ ls
> >mymodules
> >192:mymodules TamaraB$"
>
> It looks like you have a "mymodules" folder _inside_ your "Desktop/mymodules"
> folder. Form the /Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules folder, type these commands.
>
>   ls -la
>   ls -la mymodules
>
> (Feel free to omit any other stuff in your Desktop folder listing for privacy
> reasons.)
>
> Or:
>
>   cd ~/Desktop/mymodules
>   ls -laR
>
> The "R" option will create a recursive listing. Or you could just open the
> folder in the Finder and look around:
>
>   open ~/Desktop/mymodules
>
> I'm thinking you've just made an additional "mymodules" inside your main
> "mymodules" by accident.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>



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