im trying to open a file in my bin directory and the farthest i can get is into the folder but not the actual file itself i use text edit as the editor. when i try to open the file it says it doesn't exist here is what i type



cd bin
open cmnds (dir. which it is under)
open test
no such file


am i missing something or is that the farthest i can go to opening a file

"test" is the name of a Unix command, so it could be causing conflict.

Rename the file to something other than "test" and see if that helps.

it still won't open it i changed it to a bunch of different names i tried

open -adg
open -a adg


(btw adg is the new name)

i don't understand, perhaps adg is a command to?

I've never used "Text Edit", but you could try opening the file in a standard editor like "vi". Open a shell, and type

Once vi launches, press ESC, then type
to exit straight away. That should at least prove if the file is "openable".

Also, check your permissions on the file,
The permissions should at least be something like -rw-r--r-- or whatever, depending on your umask.

Cheers
ZB
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I am not so sure when you said "open" it. Doesn't the command "open" mean to start a program on a new terminal? Are you sure the file is there? If you want to run it, why just try "./file"? Or if you want to read the file content, use cat, more, or some editor such as vi/vim, emacs.