Hi - I'm guessing that you are not using the most common "shell", which I would recommend to be "bash" or "sh".

It looks like you are currently using csh or tcsh, which is less common, and at this stage I would recommend switching to bash.   I'm not sure whether you're on Mac or linux, so I'm not quite sure how you can easily change this... do you have a local system administrator who can change this for you?

Cheers.

On 23 Jul 2014, at 06:31, Isobel French <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

DEar all,

When i type in the command EDITOR=emacs;export EDITOR, this is the response i get:

neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% EDITOR=emacs;export EDITOR

EDITOR=emacs: Command not found.

export: Command not found.

Why is this happening? Thanks.

Best regards,

Isobel French

Academic Coordinator and Research Officer

Division of Neurosurgery

Department of Surgery

Faculty of Medicine

University of Malaya

016-7937605

03-79493138

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:03 PM, 张凯yahoo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Isobel,

.DS_Store is short for "Desktop Services Store" in Mac OS. If you want to delete them, just open "Terminal" (in the Applications/Utilities), and then type in

"sudo find / -name “.DS_Store” -depth -exec rm {} \;", next input your administrator password, finally all similar kinds of files effaced. Have fun!

Best,

Kai

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Free University of Berlin
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2014-07-18 11:03 GMT+02:00 Isobel French <[log in to unmask]>:

Dear all,

I was going onto the basic unix tutorial and was playing around with emcas. Before doing that I created a directory named 'Belle" so that i could play around with emacs. However when I tried removing the directory this i the response I had:

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% emacs

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% cd ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% mkdir Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% emacs Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% emacs Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: No such file or directory

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% cd ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls

#Belle# #ITF#

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% rmdir ITF

rmdir: ITF: No such file or directory

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% cd ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls

#Belle# #ITF#

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls -la

total 8

-rw-r--r--   1 neuro  staff     0 Jul 18 16:37 #Belle#

-rw-r--r--   1 neuro  staff    28 Jul 18 16:43 #ITF#

drwxr-xr-x   4 neuro  staff   136 Jul 18 16:52 .

drwxrw-r--+ 56 neuro  staff  1904 Jul 18 16:02 ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% rmdir #ITF#

rmdir: #ITF#: Not a directory

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% 

There is a hidden file in it as well name '.DS_Store"

Can somebody let me know what I have done and how do I rectify it? Also, how will I be able to remove the directory 'Belle' completely? Thanks!!

Best regards,

Isobel French

Academic Coordinator and Research Officer

Division of Neurosurgery

Department of Surgery

Faculty of Medicine

University of Malaya

016-7937605

03-79493138

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