Problem finding my folder via terminal

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 09 June 2018 01:36:17 Tamara Berger wrote:

> Hi Cameron,
>
> Re inline style: When I hit reply, this is the window I get. I don't
> get my previous email with the carets appended to the beginning of the
> line.
>
That might be a config choice, but since its gmail it may not be. I tried 
to use gmail as a pop server years ago, and bailed out in about a week, 
way too much was hard coded.

> Before I look at the rest of your email, I'd like for you to explain
> how there is a mymodule folder nested within another mymodule folder.
> I don't see this second folder in Finder, and I definitely didn't
> create it.

Finder, if thats what you are using, I am not familiar with it, is 
probably showing you that which it has cached, before that folder was 
created.  Back out one layer and go back in so it actually reads a fresh 
copy of that directory(folder).

> Thanks,
>
> Tamara
>
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 1:15 AM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
> > On 08Jun2018 22:55, Tamara Berger <brgrt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >I have to answer you via email because I haven't gotten the hang of
> > >the inline style yet.
> >
> > I'm using email :-) We use the inline style for that, too. Just walk
> > down the quoted previous message and insert your responses below the
> > relevant parts with blank lines separating the quoted material from
> > your text. Anyway...
> >
> > >Here is the result of your suggestion:
> > >
> > >Last login: Fri Jun  8 22:43:58 on ttys001
> > >192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules/
> > >192:mymodules TamaraB$ ls -laR /Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules
> > >total 16
> > >drwxr-xr-x   4 TamaraB  staff   136 Jun  7 01:32 .
> > >drwx------+ 37 TamaraB  staff  1258 Jun  8 22:30 ..
> > >-rw-r--r--@  1 TamaraB  staff  6148 Jun  7 10:54 .DS_Store
> > >drwxr-xr-x   5 TamaraB  staff   170 Jun  7 01:32 mymodules
> >
> > Ok, so here we see that there _is_ a "mymodules" folder inside your
> > "/Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules" folder.
> >
> > >/Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules/mymodules:
> > >total 16
> > >drwxr-xr-x  5 TamaraB  staff  170 Jun  7 01:32 .
> > >drwxr-xr-x  4 TamaraB  staff  136 Jun  7 01:32 ..
> > >-rw-r--r--@ 1 TamaraB  staff    0 Jun  5 09:47 README.py
> > >-rw-r--r--@ 1 TamaraB  staff  253 Jun  7 10:55 setup.py
> > >-rw-r--r--@ 1 TamaraB  staff  166 Jun  5 10:01 vsearch.py
> > >192:mymodules TamaraB$
> >
> > And inside that second "mymodules" folder is your vsearch module and
> > its accompanying files. This kind of mistake is easy to make (the
> > doubled directory).
> >
> > You can do 2 things at this point.
> >
> > 1: Just:
> >
> >    cd /Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules/mymodules
> >
> > and run the setup.py from in there.
> >
> > Or:
> >
> > 2: Repair the mistake:
> >
> >    cd /Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules
> >    mv mymodules/* .
> >    rmdir mymodules
> >
> > which will move all the files from the lower directory up to where
> > they should be. Then run the setup.py.
> >
> > BTW, the README is normally a text file named README.txt or maybe a
> > markdown file named README.md.
> >
> > >(When I copied the coding into the email, I got a line of space
> > >between each line of coding, and had to delete the extra lines one
> > > by one? Any way to do this job nonmanually or to transfer the
> > > coding into an email without the extra lines of space?)
> >
> > That is odd. My guess would be that your cut/paste is sending the
> > end of line as a CR (carriage return) and a NL (newline), and both
> > of those are being "typed" at the paste end, resulting in double
> > spaced text. Annoying.
> >
> > Are you using mail.google.com to read your GMail? I just tried
> > cut/paste some text from both iTerm and Terminal on my Mac into a
> > scratch message there and didn't get doubled lines. Can you describe
> > _exactly_ what you did to copy the text into your email? Presumably
> > you're doing something different from what I'm doing: select text in
> > the terminal, type Cmd-C to copy it, click in my new message window
> > and type Cmd-V to paste the copied text.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>



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