I'm using ubuntu and I call gedit by using this command:'sudo gedit filename.java'. I'm newbie in ubuntu so now I can not located that file. Ah I'm using windows XP and ubuntu and I have three disk C,D and E in windows XP the fourth disk for ubuntu is not display in windows XP. Can anyone show me where I can find my file? Thank you very much!
Try looking up the command "find". It will locate files.
The next time you need to find a file and you don't know where it is, just use the locate program included with Ubuntu. Sure, your file most likely won't show up immediately in the slocate database, but it's a really good searcher.
Also, the command line and the run prompt assume that the starting point, that is, the current working directory is always "~" unless you've set it differently. That means that all files and paths are relative to your home folder: /home/username for a user and /root for the root user.
Finally, you do not need to use the sudo command for writing code in your own home directory, and thus you can just stick with gedit filename.java. However, if you ever do need to use a graphical application with root/superuser privileges, use gksu for GTK apps and kdesu for KDE apps. sudo is for when you are running an program or need elevated privileges in a terminal.
Type "man find" into the terminal to get a description of how to use the command. But first place I'd look is the home folder. Open up the terminal and type "~" without quotes.
Open a terminal again ( from where you initially typed sudo ) and type ls -l you have to find it there.
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At some point, whenever I use vi from the command line (windows 10/WSL) it starts up in insert mode, meaning that everything I usually do to navigate ends up adding stuff to the file, wasting time having to clean it up.
I didn't have a vimrc file, and there doesn't seem to be anything in my bash rc files to modify vi behavior. Any ideas what I may have done or any ideas how to stop this behavior? I'm using Ubuntu-20.04
FWIW, adding a .vimrc file with tab related settings didn't change it's behavior. I looked at the /etc/vimrc file, and nothing inside it seemed relevant.
After plowing through google search and trying everything I understand about configuring 'vim' and doing comparison tests, I think:
This behavior is specific to Windows Terminal when opening a WSL terminal. Using WSL's "native" terminal (i.e., clicking the "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS" menu in the "Start" menu) doesn't have this problem.
My original motivation for switching to Windows Terminal is for its multi-tab feature. But this new behavior is crazy -- it works against years of my muscle memory of using "vi", and I'm almost certain that one day I'll accidentally update some configuration file while reading it in "vi". And, I cannot re-train a new muscle memory because all the rest of the UNIX world (e.g., when I SSH into a remote server) hasn't changed. This is like constantly switching between a Mac keyboard and a PC keyboard where the Ctrl key, etc., are in different places.
My solution: I switched to MobaXterm. It has multi-tab support, and is actually richer in features compared to Windows Terminal.
Please run the following:
alias | grep vim
sudo find / -name .vimrc 2>/dev/null
These commands should show you all the places to check, change the alias or fix the .vimrc files found.
Do you find it always going into edit mode, when you vim a file directly and when you use vim as the git commit editor for example?
EDIT:
You could also try which -a vim or whereis vim to see if you have multiple versions. Or failing that sudo find / -name vim 2>/dev/null
here is a better solution. I downloaded the binary.
https://github.com/lxhillwind/vim-bin/releases/tag/v9.0.0978
Put the vim command in /usr/bin/vi
Put the runtime in:
/usr/local/share/vim/runtim
sudo apt remove vim vim-common vim-runtime vim-tiny
sudo apt purge vim vim-common vim-doc vim-runtime vim-tiny
The second line actually gets rid of residual-defaults.
There is also a defaults.vim someplace on the system. I just nuked it.
I went through and made sure there were no aliases or vi or vim configuration files, but still no luck.
This is a horrible solution, but the only thing that is keeping my sanity right now.
vi -c ":imap jj "
You can alias it in your .bashrc. Looking into better solutions.
I'm new to using Window's Command Prompt, and also to developing with Ruby on Rails. Possibly a silly question but one that I'm sure everyone who learns with CodeCademy will end up asking; right now I'm prefixing every command for my project with 'Jruby -S ...", for example:
C:\users\MyName\MyProject> Jruby -S rails new MyApp
...
C:\users\MyName\MyProject> Jruby -S bundle install
...
C:\users\MyName\MyProject> Jruby -S rake db:migrate
Can I use some kind of alternative shell to save me typing Jruby -S every time? I'm aware of bash and powershell but have basically zero knowledge of whether I should be using them...
Thanks folks!
EDIT
Lots of helpful suggestions below, but I was really looking for a shell to mimic the functionality of the console on codecademy.com (which I believe is supposed to work like a Mac's 'bash' program?). Thanks anyway.
I'm new to using Window's Command Prompt
The CMD works very similarly to the GUI/Shell -- you have to call applications and then run commands with them.
The difference between CMD and windows is that CMD is "naked" - you have to ensure all the paths are correct, and that you're calling the correct application each time.
For example, calling rails server literally translates as:
Program = ruby.exe / rails
Command = server
CMD uses the PATH environment variable to make this process smoother.
The PATH var basically allows you to reference applications on your computer from the CLI (command line interface). This means that if you have an application (EG ruby.exe), you can add the ruby.exe directory to your PATH variable, allowing you to call ruby ... straight from cmd.
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In your case, I don't have much experience with JRuby; I do know, however, that if you want to invoke the functionality of that application, you have to call it from the cli.
Hopefully my answer gives some context.
You can do that with powershell.
I'm sure that there should be a better way to do that, but you can try this
$ruby = "Jruby"
$s = "-S"
& $ruby $s rails new MyApp
I don't work on windows, however the jruby zip files on the download site have a bin directory with .bat and .exe files for jruby, rake, and gem. You could just add the directory you installed jruby to and the 'bin' subdirectory to your PATH to start.
set JRUBY_HOME= your_installed_jruby
set PATH= %PATH%;%JRUBY_HOME%\bin
http://jruby.org/download
I don't know what the windows installer does, but I would think it would do something similar.
I am developing web applications using Ruby on Rails and Sublime Text 3 on OS X 10.8.4. I recently installed the package RubyTest. The tests only work when Sublime is launched using the command
subl
in terminal. Otherwise I get the error message:
/bin/sh: rspec: command not found
I think that's meant to be the case; that's implied in RubyTest's readme file on github.
However I'd like to retain the ability to launch from the dock. Is there a way I can do this?
Unfortunately, OSX applications do not pick up on your $PATH variable set in Terminal. To change the internal PATH settings in Mountain Lion (this method hasn't been tested with previous versions, although it should work), you'll need to edit /etc/launchd.conf:
Make sure you have admin privileges.
Open Terminal or your favorite substitute and see if there's anything in the file /etc/launchd.conf:
cat /etc/launchd.conf
If you get an error like
cat: /etc/launchd.con: No such file or directory
then continue with the next step. If the cat command does display some content, copy it to the clipboard.
Create a new text file with the following content, modified to fit your needs:
setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/Users/YourUserName/bin:/path/to/gems/bin
If the cat command displayed some content in the previous step, paste it into the new file before the setenv PATH command. If it already contains a setenv PATH command, just modify it to add the directories you need, such as /path/to/gems/bin
Save the new file in your home directory (/Users/YourUserName) as launchd.conf.
Go back to Terminal and enter:
sudo mv ~/launchd.conf /etc
to use admin power to move the new file to /etc, replacing anything that was there before. Depending on your previous usage of the sudo command, you may get a short "be careful doing what you're doing" message, but either way you'll need to enter your password. /etc is not directly accessible through the Save dialog unless you're a real power user and know how to get around OSX's file system restrictions.
Reboot your computer
And you should be all set. If you're interested, launchd and launchctl use the csh/tcsh syntax, so you can't use the bash/zsh export PATH=/usr/local/bin:... format.
Trying to get a rails server running nicely.
downloaded ruby 1.8.7 using link from rails page.
did ./configure/make/install, installed it fine.
tried ruby -v , got nothing.
tried ./ruby -v from the folder and it worked.
I feel like i've gone from understanding something about unix, to completely lost. Clearly ruby is working as a 'daemon', but not running as it should. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Losing too much hair through this process :(
J.
can you see where make install put the ruby executeable?
if you do, check if this dir is in your $PATH by
echo $PATH
In general, unix needs to know where to find the executable file to be able to run it. It uses $PATH to find this executable file.
So if you type "ruby" it will go look at you $PATH and then look in each of those directories for a file named "ruby". If it can't find it in any of those directories it should then also look in the current directory.
So, this whole process will fail if:
a) the directory that contains the executable ruby file is not in any of the directories in $PATH AND
b) the executable is not in the current directory
... one more alternative is that is is available in one of these directories... but is not actually marked as being executable by you. You can check this by making sure you're int e directory with the ruby file and typing "ls -l ./ruby"
That will list the ruby file along with all its permissions and who owns it.
It should be something like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-02-14 10:45 ./ruby
Notice the rwx. If your ruby doesn't have x then you'll need to add executable permission using chmod eg: "chmod 755 ./ruby"
Also note the "root root" - that means it's owned by root - in general, this means that only root can run it. In this particular example it has eXecute permission for everyone so everybody can run it, but if you do not have execute permission set like this, then it means that if you are trying to run it as yourself, you won't have permission, and you should either add full permissions or try running it using: "sudo ruby"
However - by the sounds of it - the most likely problem is that you just don't have the ruby executable's directory in your $PATH. You will need to fix this even if you get it running right now - because, in future, you will need to run ruby from directories other than the current one.
You will need to google for instructions on adding things to your $PATH - because it differs depending on your version of linux and your current shell, but it's not very difficult.
Which shell are you running? If tcsh, you may need a "rehash". Otherwise, as leifg says, add the directory containing the ruby executable to your path.
I've just downloaded shoes but can't get them out the box.
double clicked on shoes2.run in ubuntu intrepid and gedit opened with the following message:
Could not open the file /home/mark/Marks files/2…ng/Programming/shoes2.run using the Unicode (UTF-8) character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a different character coding from the menu and try again.
It offered a dropdown with 2 options and a retry button:
Current locale (UTF-8)
Western (ISO-8859-15)
Neither of them are recognized.
How do i get it running?
m-
I had this same problem. try sudo chmoding the file :
sudo chmod 777 shoes2.run
then try running it as a script
./shoes2.run
that should work.
I am still trying to get shoes2 in my path so I can run it easily like the previous version (which I got through apt-get) right now I have to run it as a script each time I use it.
Good Luck!