I am a rookie in Python who has been working on Learn Python the Hard Way. This whole process goes well as I have a smattering knowledge on Python until I march into ex46 where I get stuck in the 'Creating the skeleton Project Directory' section. I have no idea where I should run those commands guided on this book. Following are the excerpt of this part:
First, create the structure of your skeleton directory with these commands:
$ mkdir projects
$ cd projects/
$ mkdir skeleton
$ cd skeleton
$ mkdir bin
$ mkdir NAME
$ mkdir tests
$ mkdir docs
I have tried to run these commands in Windows Powershell, only to be warned that these commands can’t be recognized. I also fumbled to execute them in Pycharm, but all in vain. Could someone point out how I could get it done?
In addition, I am somewhat curious about this method because there seems to be handy way to approach this on Pycharm. Could I achieve the same goal on that?
I am using Python 2.7 and all previous exercises operate well until ex46.
You get that error because you're typing a superfluous $ at the beginning of each command. That $ is the (Linux) command prompt. On your Windows machine, it's something like C:\WINDOWS\system32>. Don't type that.
Just type
mkdir projects
and press Enter. That creates a folder (directory) named "projects". Then type
cd projects
and press Enter. That changes the current directory to that new folder you just created. And so on.
Content migrated from comments since this is what actually solved the issue.
Remove the dollar sign $ from the statement, as this is just the symbol used as a CLI prompt not part of the statement itself.
Then type the mkdir command and it should work e.g.
mkdir my_directory
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I'm trying to follow a walkthrough and this is one of the steps, "go to that same folder in Terminal (if you can't do that you should probably quit now)" I'm not very familiar with Mac's Terminal, but don't feel like quitting. If it helps, I need to run a grep -r "what I'm looking for" command on the file. I really have no idea what I need to do to run that command, but the rest of the walkthrough is pretty thorough, so I know I can follow the next few steps.
You need to move to the directory where that file is stored, for this the command is cd. For example lets say the file is located in a directory names MyDir in the Desktop, the command will be
cd /Users/{YOUR_USERNAME_HERE}/Desktop/MyDir
You can run ls command here to check if the file is actually present in this directory or not
I am attempting to write a build script to be used with Facebook watchman and my ember-cli application.
My build script is:
#!/bin/sh
cd ..
ember build
cd ..
cp ./ember-app/dist/index.html ./slim-app/app/templates/app.php
cp -r ./ember-app/dist/assets/ ./slim-app/public/assets/
And my watchman command is:
watchman -- trigger $PWD/ember-app/app 'ember-build' '**' -- sh $PWD/build.sh
Watchman triggers and finds my script fine but when I look at the log I get an error saying ember cannot be found. I'm not really sure why because when i run sh build.sh everything works fine.
Is there any way I could do something like which ember to determine the path to ember and use it directly? I know I can just do which ember and copy and paste that path into the script but I really don't want to do that because I want the build script to work no matter which version of node/nvm I am using.
I'm also open to suggestions to a better way of doing this.
Sounds like a PATH problem. When watchman is first started it captures your PATH environment variable, except on OS X at the moment, due to a bug in our launchd integration.
https://github.com/facebook/watchman/issues/68 has some suggestions for an awkward workaround.
Another possibility is to simply put a line in your build script to set the PATH:
# Add the path to ember in here somewhere
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
I have been working on a couple of projects now. Always as I am firing up my terminal, in mac, I start at the root folder, which is fine for most of the times. But I was wondering if there is a possibility to make a file which redirects you instantly to a map. Say for instance I have to type:
cd Desktop/justamap/justanothermap/andamap/etc.
Would it be possible to create a command file in the rootfolder, containing the full adress of the designated map, which would take me to the selected map just by for instance running it?
This could save me a lot of time when working on projects with time between them.
I am truly sorry if I am reposting a question but I just couldnt find something with my keywords.
Thx in advance, your help is appreciated!
Greetings,
Kipt Scriddy
You can create a simple sh file (for instance ./anything_here) and run it:
#!/bin/sh
cd Desktop/justamap/justanothermap/andamap/etc
$ chmod +x ./anything_here
$ ./anything_here
You can also create a symlink to the folder, and then cd into the symlink (this will act like the folder is, in fact, ./anything_here):
$ ln -s ./anything_here Desktop/justamap/justanothermap/andamap/etc
$ cd ./anything_here
Or you can create an alias, and write it on the console, putting this on your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile file:
alias anything_here="cd Desktop/justamap/justanothermap/andamap/etc"
$ anything_here
Try using
vi ~/.bash_profile
it will open in vim u can use mate or anyhing else
alias project='cd Desktop/justamap/justanothermap/andamap/etc.'
close your terminal and restart it. Bingo should work for you.
Working Great for me :)
I'm using git portable on windows. It's rather user friendly, but there is one thing that bothers me. Every time I run it I have to type the entire path to the project directory, which is quite long sometimes. Maybe it's not a serious problem, but it would be very nice to shorten it. I tried the following:
bash script.sh // cd in this file // nothing happens
create symbolic link it - it just copies the directory
create windows shortcut - can't open it within git console
Anybody managed to solve this?
You can right click on the Windows shortcut that launches Git Bash, edit its properties and modify the "Start in" path to your project path. Every time you launch this shortcut, it will cd into that project path.
Or you can add an alias to your ~/.bashrc like below:
alias proj="cd /path/to/project/"
This will allow you to cd into the project dir on demand by typing the alias name at the prompt.
If you run git-bash.bat from Portable git, it should work mostly as normal git installation. So, to work with a specific repository, just cd into it:
cd /c/code/MyRepo/
git whatever
I've added
cd /c/dev
to
~/.bashrc
with
echo cd /c/dev >> ~/.bashrc
But I'm running MSysGit the non-portable version. Hope this helps in some way anyway.
First off I am very very new to shell scripting. I am trying to write a script that takes in one parameter and then copies a folder in a different directory naming it using the parameter. This is the current code that I have:
#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/html/fbplugin/chrome
sudo mkdir temp/$1
sudo cp -rf "/var/www/html/fbplugin/chrome/fbplugin" "/var/www/html/fbplugin/chrome/temp/$1"
When I run this code it says can't cd to /var/www/html/fbplugin/chrome. I'm not sure why it is saying this because I know the directory exists. I have copied the line directly and it works in terminal. If anyone could help me out that would be great.
If it matters in order to run the script I am typing "sh build.sh"
If that directory really exists, then you must have executed that script with a different user (cron, webserver, etc).
Check the rights for that directory.
I don't know why you're getting the error about cd, but it looks like you could just use absolute paths throughout. That would solve the larger problem of the script working correctly.