Re: ls no display directory
Lawrence Lucier hat gesagt: // Lawrence Lucier wrote:
> Howdy all........:-)
>
> I inadvertently typed " cd\ " (without the quotes) while
> at the root prompt. I got a what looked like a DOS prompt
> " > " (again without the quotes) so I am assuming that
> somehow I switched over to DOS mode somehow. I haven't
> even looked at running stuff from the DOS side yet as I
> have been concentrating on learning linux syntax,
> installing etc.
No, you didn't enter DOS-mode, that is not so simple.
Instead you have type the socalled "escape"-character "\" which
"escapes" your ENTER-key. That means that ENTER did not end your command
"cd", but instead just inserted a newline.
The strange "DOS-promt" ">" just indicates that you can type the rest of your
command now.
In the end your full comman after
$cd\
> ls
was the same as
$ cd ls
and you don't have a directory called ls here, do you?
>
> Anyways to make a long story short, now whenever I try to
> do a directory listing of root with " ls " (yes indeed,
> without the quotes) no directory names/files are
> displayed. If I switch to a subdirectory or do a "ls"
> (yep, you guessed it!<g>) with full directory path, then
> ls seems to work just fine.....it's only in the root
> directory that names aren't displayed.
>
> Any clues on this strange behaviour anyone?
> Thanks.....:-)
>
> Opps, almost forgot! How does one go about displaying
> which directory they are in as part of the prompt?
>
> eg: etc/foo/bar#
>
> rather than just having the "#" displayed (Need I
> mention about the quotes? <g>)
For example:
Edit /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile and put a line
PS1="\\W\$ "
into it. (with the quotes!)
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