pwd

[jonthornham]

How do you change your current working directory in terminal? Mine says

Code: (Objective-C)

Last login: Mon Oct 19 20:57:15 on ttys000
Macintosh-7:~ jonthornham$ pwd
/Users/jonthornham
Macintosh-7:~ jonthornham$ 

Thanks,

Jon

[skochan]

Use the cd (change directory) command:

Code: (Objective-C)

$ pwd
/Users/steve_kochan
$ cd /Users
$ pwd
/Users
$

Cheers,

Steve Kochan

[jonthornham]

I am assuming the Terminal does not like spaces in folder titles? Is there anyway around it without changing the name of the folder?

Code: (Objective-C)

/Users/jonthornham/Jon/Thornham Incorporated/iPhone Development/Books/Programming in Objective-C 2.0/Chapter 16/Program 16.1/build/Debug

I get this error

Code: (Objective-C)

-bash: cd: /Users/jonthornham/Jon/Thornham: No such file or directory

Thanks,

Jon

[skochan]

Put the folder name inside a pair of quotes (either single '...' or double "..." will do).

Cheers,

Steve Kochan
P.S. You can always read my shell programming book ("Unix Shell Programming") if you really want to learn this stuff.  

[toby]

Steve Kochan
P.S. You can always read my shell programming book ("Unix Shell Programming") if you really want to learn this stuff.  

Sweet i need to learn this stuff sometime soonish

[jonthornham]

Thanks for the help. How important is this to an iPhone programmer on a 1 to 10?

Jon

[skochan]

Maybe 3-4.  Since OS X is based on Unix, it never hurts to have extra skills to help speed up the development process.  I still do many tasks in Terminal, but that's based on my extensive Unix background.

Cheers,

Steve Kochan

[jonthornham]

Thanks for the help. I'll have to take a look at the book.

Jon