On October 12, 2017 4:25:29 PM MDT, Person <xueyilu...@gmail.com> wrote: >l tried the former commands again, with “ls -lh” and “pwd”, but the >terminal remained unresponsive, even if it was formerly responsive. > >So I tried changing the command around a little. The Qubes site >mentions to enter this command: “qvm-run --pass-io <src-vm> 'cat >/path/to/file_in_src_domain' > /path/to/file_name_in_dom0”, and I >realized that I didn’t put in a desired path for the file in dom0. I >tried using a directory in dom0 that I found, which was >/home/user/Downloads. When I entered this command, dom0’s response was >“Usage: qvm-run [options] [<vm-name>] [<cmd>]” and “qvm-run: error: Too >many arguments”. I’m not too sure what this means, but I believe I >somehow typed in the command wrong. I typed in “qvm-run —pass-io >sys-net ‘cat /home/user/Downloads’ /home/user/Downloads”. (The first >“/home/user/Downloads is the directory in sys-net and the second is the >directory in dom0.)
Where you show the command you typed, you're missing the output redirection (the ">"). So instead of the shell doing the redirection to the file, it passes it as an argument to the qvm-run command, resulting in the error you got. Ron -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/60927EFB-EB40-4004-9655-6F035AF74196%40shaw.ca. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
