Re: Hidden Folders
Re: Hidden Folders
- Subject: Re: Hidden Folders
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:32:42 -0800
On Jan 10, 2005, at 7:12 AM, Gil Dawson wrote:
Could someone please explain how I can see these directories...
/usr/bin
/sw/bin/
/usr/local/bin/
...on my machine?
Gil,
For the purposes of pdftotext, you should have little reason to go into
those folders from the Finder, which is why they are invisible.
Anything you might need to do in there you'll likely have to do via
Terminal anyway, so the better question is what you expect to do in
there via the Finder?
That said, Go to Folder (shift cmd G) in the Finder can take you
anywhere... you just need to give it the path you want.
But really, you'll not learn much by going there from the Finder -
these are directories reserved for shell apps, and as such should be
accessed via a shell.
PS, not trying to discourage you... if anything, the opposite - fire up
the Terminal, and type:
cd /usr/local/bin
ls -la
The first line will take you iinto that directory (cd = change
directory)
The second line will list all the files, including invisible files, in
the current directory (whatever you happen to be in)
Cheers,
Roger
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