On Sat, 31 Mar, 2007 at 22:38:41 -0500, dwain wrote:
> I'm trying to copy an .icc profile from my home directory to the Adobe
> Icc Profiles/RGB Profiles directory. I su in the console then cp -t
> /home/my directory/file directory/file.icc/
> /usr/share/color/icc/Adobe_ICC_Profiles/RGB_Profiles/.
>
> The result is that the .icc file does not exist. What am I doing
> incorrectly? How do I need to write the command?
Dwain,
If you don't know about it already, then here's a tip;
Use <TAB>-completion.
Basically it works like this:
Pressing <TAB> makes the shell try to complete whatever you're in the
process of writing. This is a very nice feature, which not only saves you
lots of keystrokes, but also 'composes' whatever to be 'syntactically'
correct, including upper/lower case letters and proper escaping of
whitespace etc. ('Syntax' is used here for lack of a better word)
If there are more than one possible way to complete something (like a
filename), then the first <TAB> will complete as much as it can, and a
second <TAB> will list the possible choices. In this case, you type the next
letter, and press <TAB> again... etc... etc...
So - instead of trying to write everything out with keystrokes, you should
let the shell help you figure it out. Because the shell 'knows' how stuff
(like paths/filenames) should be written.
Now, about your *actual* problem a couple of things spring to mind:
Is "/home/my directory/" in fact a real pathname? My guess would be that it
really would be something like "/home/dwain/".
Looking at the file list at
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/suselinux/adobeiccprofiles.html
tells me that the target folder *does* indeed contain whitespaces, which
must be escaped.
I'd suggest you verify both source and destination, using 'ls -l' and <TAB>
completion first, and *then* do your 'cp'.
HTH
/Jon
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