Linux

Hi Jimmy,

I was just wondering what it is your trying to achieve?
Depending on what you want to do with your system will determine which shell is best for you. The two main shell styles are Korn & C with many shells stemming from these, tcsh, bash, ksh etc.
I use the bash shell primarily.

ok, thanks

If you check in one of the main threads, everyone has a personal preference. /bin/sh was the first popular shell. Korn shell (ksh) is an enhanced version and Bourne Again Shell (bash) is even more enhanced.

On Solaris, you'll probably use Korn shell and on Linux you'll probably use Bourne Again shell.

ls works because it's in your PATH (type which ls and it'll probably return /bin/ls). Unless you have a script called ls in your current directory, ./ls will not work. If you just type in "./", bash will just tell you that ./ is a directory.

If you type in ./[command], [command] has to be in the current directory. If you just type in [command], then [command] has to be in one of the directories identified by the PATH environment variable.

Carl

I navagated to the diectory usin' the "cd" cammand and typed ./flasplayer-installer
,and it said no such directery.

When u go to the the directory in Gui mode and the icon was A yellow cube thing on a paper.

Don't forget I use Mandriva Linux, and /bin/bash...


Help???

Which directory did you save the "flasplayer-installer" to?
Open up a new terminal session, cd into the directory you saved the file to.
In this directory now type, ls -l
It could be that your file has been tar'd or gzip'd, from wherever you downloaded from.
If the file is called flashplayer-installer.tar.gz (or similar), try this
tar -xvzf flashplayer-installer.tar.gz
This will extract the installer file to the current directory.
Do an ls -l once again to confirm the file is there.

The whole thing is actually called install_flash_player_7_linux.tar-1.

OK so cd into the directory where the file is then type
tar -xvf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar-1
It may extract to a new directory within your current directory. Just type ls -lrt and the extracted file or directory should appear at the bottom of the list with todays date and time close to current time.