Bear in mind, too, that you'd use forward slashes not backslashes. Also, ~ denotes the home directory. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > A path or a pattern match? For example, to list all the pdf files in your > current directory you would do > > ls *.pdf > > where * is a wildcard that matches 0 or more letters. The path is where the > files live, so to list all the pdf files in your documents folder you would do > > ls ~/Documents/*.pdf > > The ~ gets converted by the shell to be your login account location. So for > me it gets turned into > > ls /users/cblouch/Documents/*.pdf > > so the ~ can save a lot of typing. > > CB > > On 9/25/12 11:41 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I will have to write a path in terminal, but how do I do that. Which format >> to write paths in. Please show me an example. >> >> If I want to do a speciffic task for everything in this folder with a given >> nickname that could e.g. be .mobi, how can I do that. I mean which command >> to use before the dot in windows it is *., but how is it on the mac? >> >> Best regards Annie. >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
