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hi guys, im trying to get rid of a non empty directory. i have researched it online and it basically says that the command would be sudo rmdir -r filename
it keeps coming back with invalid option for r

what am i doing wrong?

the directory is in the home directory along with the documents, videos, download etc and i am in the home directory. i tried putting a text file there to make sure i am in the right path and it deleted it with rm so the path is correct.

i understand that i can do it with the gui but im trying to learn the terminal for the next forty years.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

given that im in the home directory, what cli command should i typoe to get access to my documents folder which i can clearly see in the gui but cannot seem to access.

i thought logically it should be /home/files/documents or perhaps /home/user/files/documents

where am i being a dweeb!!!!!....... again

I know that this question has been asked a number of times in the past, but I still can't find an answer. I typed in the following command in my terminal: cd/Home/Harold/Pictures (and I know all of these exist because I can see them) and I get the following response: Bash: cd/Home/Harold/Pictures: no such file or directory. Any ideas?

Hello everybody,

My system specifications: Samsung RV509, i3, 300GB HDD, 3GB Ram, Dual boot Windows7 & LM 17 cinnamon 32bit.

I have OpenOffice preinstalled on my system. I would like to create 'kannada' language word documents and be able to save them as windows .doc type file and/or .pdf file. [Kannada is the language of a state in south India.]

In case of windows; some 'kannada' language softwares called as 'Baraha' and 'Nudi' are available, that can be installed on a windows pc and 'kannada' language word documents can be created there.

These 'kannada' language softwares are not available for Linux.

However I want to be able to create 'kannada' language word documents on my Linux machine.

Is this possible? Could someone please kindly help me in this regard? I would be greatfull.

Thanks & Regards

Anil

This is probably very basic, but I am totally new to Linux.

I am tryng to sync a usb data stick to Documents directory using:
rsync -auvhi /media/2C24-DC8F/ ~/Documents/

I then sync the other way [rsync -auvhin ~/Documents/ /media/2C24-DC8F/] expecting little or nothing, but end up with a massive list. A typical item being: .f.....g... boats/Siskiwit-Bay-SOF.pdf

My very limited undertanding makes me think that the group has changed during the first operation despite using -a, which I thought preserved the group.

Basically I am trying to keep /Documents and my data stick identical as I move between computers. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi there,

I'm just starting to use Linux Mint 17 and practising commands. I have wallpapers.tar.gz in the Downloads folder and want to extract it to my Pictures folder.

I type tar -xzvf wallpapers.tar.gz -C /Pictures but it says no such directory. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for looking.

I'm learning about Linux, started yesterday. I have a question which didn't clear from the book and Google. The question is what is the difference between ./ and / in terminal? I'm asking this because when i give command for example - ./home/yogesh/Desktop/Books it is showing bash: ./home/yogesh/Desktop : No such file or directory but on removing the dot it's showing /home/yogesh/Desktop/Books: Is a directory.
Again on giving command like /Desktop it showing /Desktop :No such file or directory but on adding dot before / it is giving ./Desktop: is a directory.
What is the difference between ./ and / ?
I'm sorry if i asked something foolish but I have to know it anyway. Thankyou in advance and sorry for my bad English.

I'm running Xubuntu and it was a challenge just getting Copy.com on there. (I installed the desktop app on both of my computers.) Now that I have it though, I don't really know how to use it.

I know this is kind of more a Copy.com question, but I don't know anything about Copy.com (besides having it--lol) and besides, I like you LQ guys.

So yeah, I installed the desktop app for Copy.com on both of my computers. I know that if I put something in the Copy folder that will be available to both computers.

But how Copy does the backing up I don't know.

When I change a file or folder do I have to plop that into the Copy folder every time or does Copy somehow update the file or folder in the Copy folder automatically? (It doesn't seem to.)

Okay, when I, say, take the Documents folder from one computer and plop it into the Copy folder that's that. Then I take the Documents folder from the other computer and plop that into the Copy folder, then all the files from both folders will be in the Copy folder (and the Copy cloud), right?

Now I just removed a couple of files from a folder and copied and pasted the folder into the Copy folder. But then when I looked at the Copy folder the files I'd deleted were still there. What's the process? How does it work?

I mean, how does this work as a way of backing things up AND organizing things? To me it seems like a decent way of throwing stuff into the Copy folder (and cloud), but how is that different than Google Drive? I mean, that's not really a backup, is it? It's like a flash drive in the cloud.

And when I combined the same folders (with the same titles anyway, but they each had different files within them) from the two computers I'd expected each folder on each computer to have all the same files that were cumulatively on both. Instead, they're the same. And the cumulative is only on the Copy folder.

I like the notion of just throwing the folders and files into the Copy folder. It's much quicker than Google Drive. But the backing up feature eludes me and the syncing feature makes me fearful that I'll lose data or that the files will become hopelessly less organized.

Thanks.

I'm sorry to ask such a simple question but every time I think I figure something out or think I'm going somewhere get stopped dead in my tracks. My friend installed linux on my computer and then moved away immediately so I have no one to help me!

I downloaded the webcam program Cheese. I found through some tutorials that I have to copy the folder to the /opt/ folder and the only way to do that is through the terminal. I found this tutorial and still can't manage to copy the folder. These are the problems I run into:

1. I don't know where to open the terminal. I've tried opening it from the extracted Cheese folder in my downloads folder and from the /opt/ folder itself. It opens up but:
2. when I type the command sudo cp -r cheese /opt/ it will ask for modernnewspeak's password. When I try to type this in nothing happens, even though it JUST let me type in the command. I pressed "enter" thinking maybe it was hiding my password and I get the message "cannot stat 'cheese'. No such file or directory"

please tell me what I'm doing wrong! I tried to follow that tutorial and look through the FAQ here but I cannot figure this out. Thank you in advance!

iam trying to open a 100mb fasta file in libre calc, and it stays like that for several minutes and finally displays that the file exceeded the row limit in excel , is there any way for me to view this file in excel