Ubuntu, anyone?? Help!!!


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Allegro

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Just wondering anyone here using Ubuntu?? If so, does anyone know how to list the directories using Terminal command?

(sorry lah, real newbie here :embrass: )

allegro
 

Allegro said:
Just wondering anyone here using Ubuntu?? If so, does anyone know how to list the directories using Terminal command?

(sorry lah, real newbie here :embrass: )

allegro

Yup .. i'm running the Kubuntu OS on my office PC ... list directories?!? ... ls loh .... any commands not sure .. go google or - man ls ... ;)
 

Allegro said:
Just wondering anyone here using Ubuntu?? If so, does anyone know how to list the directories using Terminal command?

(sorry lah, real newbie here :embrass: )

allegro

You mean Ububtu, a Linux Distro right? The command to list the directory in a terminal (a command prompt in Windows term) is

ls
ls -l

Hope this answer your question.
 

ls -l is to list files in the current directory, rite? wat I was looking for is something like a file explorer in window, by which I can tell which are the directories in which drive. Basically I need to know other than the current directory or drive, what are the other available ones. (sorry, not sure if there is such a thing in ubuntu in the first place :dunno: )
 

Allegro said:
ls -l is to list files in the current directory, rite? wat I was looking for is something like a file explorer in window, by which I can tell which are the directories in which drive. Basically I need to know other than the current directory or drive, what are the other available ones. (sorry, not sure if there is such a thing in ubuntu in the first place :dunno: )
Was using Ubuntu previously. Dont think got what you're looking for :dunno:
 

Allegro said:
ls -l is to list files in the current directory, rite? wat I was looking for is something like a file explorer in window, by which I can tell which are the directories in which drive. Basically I need to know other than the current directory or drive, what are the other available ones. (sorry, not sure if there is such a thing in ubuntu in the first place :dunno: )

IIRC, in unix a directory is also a file. If you use ls -l you will list file in the current directory.
you can use ls -l / to list all the file in the root directory of the Linux file. Also when you use
ls -l a directory you will see something like this

drwxr-xr-x 28 user group 4096 Sep 26 15:40 www

The d in the 1st column tell you that this entry is a directory. If you want some textbase gui tool, you can install midnight commander yourself from http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/.

Hope this help.
 

try type "mc" w/o quote at the shell.
if you have it installed, shd be for ubuntu.
 

Thanks for all the tips. Found (by chance, ha!) a "File Browser" under the System Tools. Cool!
 

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