[ubuntu-users] Command not found

[John Sampson]

Hello -

I don't have Ubuntu running on the computer where I have my mailing program.

I also found that the shell can be got into a state where "cd Downloads" 
does
work. This leads me to think there is an intermittent fault of some kind.

Regards

_John Sampson_


On 05/03/2012 14:39, Colin Law wrote:
> On 5 March 2012 14:22, John Sampson<jrs.idx at ntlworld.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/03/2012 13:46, Bert Swart wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:33:59PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On 5 March 2012 12:30, John Sampson<jrs.idx at ntlworld.com>    wrote:
>>>>> Not knowing my situation you have no right to say that.
>>>>>
>>>>> So why is there no man page for cd?
>>>>> What does the "~$" mean in the prompt?
>>>>> I had typed "cd Downloads" among other guesses - for some reason
>>>>> adding "/" to the end is the answer, the one I didn't guess.
>>>> There should be no need for the trailing '/'.  Can you confirm that
>>>> for you it is necessary?
>> Tried again. Yes, it is necessary.
> Can you copy and paste the command you entered and the result please
> (the complete lines please).  Remove the user name from the prompt if
> you want to.  (As I mentioned ealier you can use ctrl-shift-C to copy
> from terminal).
>
>>
>>> Perhaps show output from ls Downloads*
>>
>> This gives "ls: Cannot access Downloads*:  No such file or directory".
> Again please copy/paste the complete command and result.
>
> Also the same for
> ls -al
>
> Colin
>