> > I still have that problem with my Terminal not recognising files, its > really frustrating. One person helping me thought it might be my Ubuntu, > as I was trying to follow his directions and all I was getting was file > not found and it was right there on the Desktop. Which was why I > wondered if somebody could possibly come onto my pc to take a look and > actually show me, if there was something wrong. > > Thank you again though, that is really helpful. > > John. >
Few things to remember about how you address files on the terminal. If you're used to Windows it can be a little confusing as Windows is a bit woolly on this kind of thing, Linux is more explicit about what you want to do. If you have a file with a space in it, you have to either escape the space or quote the whole thing. E.g.: $ ls Tel List.csv (without escaping the spaces) $ cp Tel List.csv Tel List2.csv cp: target `List2.csv' is not a directory (with escaping the spaces, it works) $ cp Tel\ List.csv Tel\ List2.csv (or quoting the text) $ cp "Tel List.csv" "Tel List3.csv" $ ls Tel List2.csv Tel List.csv -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
