Dear Dr Stephen,
Yes I am going back to the section in the basic unix tutorial on emacs. I
will try first what you have advised me and post more questions later.
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 Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Stephen Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi - that's almost right, except:
>
> - in the case of most editors (eg emacs), starting the editor with a new
> filename such as
> emacs my_new_script
> will create that file for you (in this case the script file
> my_new_script). So you don't need to "create" the file before opening the
> editor.
>
> - then once you have created the file and exited the editor, you can then
> try running the script in the terminal.
>
> I think at this point you would probably benefit from going back to the
> basic unix tutorial
> http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/unix_intro/
> and going through it in fine detail.
>
> Cheers, Steve.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 24 Jul 2014, at 09:22, Isobel French <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Dr Stephen,
>
> Does this mean that I have to create a file with the name that I want
> first, and then open it in emacs to edit it, before going back to the file
> in terminal again? 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 Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Stephen Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi - no, that's not what that page is telling you to do. You should be:
>>
>> - create and edit a new script, for example with name "filename", for
>> example by:
>> emacs filename
>>
>> - then in this file put commands such as the 3 lines after the "-
>> Example" paragraph heading, and then save the file and exit the editor (eg
>> emacs).
>>
>> - then run the chmod command to make the script file "filename" executable
>>
>> - then to run it, do something like, in the terminal, ./filename
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 Jul 2014, at 09:09, Isobel French <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dr Stephen,
>>
>> tq for your advice. Yes I am. However i did not execute all the commands
>> as I am afraid I might do something I will not be able to reverse in the
>> system. Right now I am going through this:
>>
>> http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/lectures/scripting/s_0020.htm
>>
>> When I type:
>>
>> sh-3.2$ #!/bin/sh
>> sh-3.2$ chmod a+x filename
>> chmod: filename: No such file or directory
>>
>> What does this mean? 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 Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Stephen Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24 Jul 2014, at 04:15, Isobel French <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> HI Dr Stephen,
>>>
>>> So for all the exercises in the unix tutorial I should switch to either
>>> only "bash" or "sh"? is that why some commands are not working? By the way
>>> the system I'm using is OS X version 10.8.5 on the Mac. Tqvm!
>>>
>>>
>>> Correct. I would use "bash" if possible.
>>>
>>> Btw - I assume that you're going through the basic unix tutorial
>>> http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/unix_intro/
>>>
>>> first?
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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 Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Stephen Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> ____________________
>>>>>
>>>>> Kai Zhang
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> PhD student
>>>>> Cluster Languages of Emotion
>>>>> Free University of Berlin
>>>>> Thielallee 38, 14195 Berlin
>>>>> Mobile:+49(0)17644403051
>>>>> E-mail:[log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>> ____________________
>>>>>
>>>>> Kai Zhang
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> PhD student
>>>>> Cluster Languages of Emotion
>>>>> Free University of Berlin
>>>>> Thielallee 38, 14195 Berlin, Germany
>>>>> Mobile:+49(0)17644403051
>>>>> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 <03-79493138>*
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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>
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