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C.Britt
C.Britt

Reputation: 1

Bash - open command not working

I'm taking the One Month Rails course and I'm just learning how to navigate the command line. I'm trying to open my Documents folder from the command line as a test. When I type "pwd" it shows up as the working directory. When I type "open ." it says:

sh.exe": open: command not found

According to the video tutorial, you should be able to open folders directly from the command line. So what am I doing wrong? Help please!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3338

Answers (2)

Bob Gilmore
Bob Gilmore

Reputation: 13758

This isn't really a Ruby on Rails problem at this point; you're just shelling out, and having trouble determining which commands are available in your platform's shell.

The command that you actually try to run will depend on the platform that you're running on. (We can see that it's windows, based on that sh.exe that you mention.)

What platform was the original tutorial written for? Some flavor of Unix, or perhaps Mac? I know that on the Mac, 'open' is a command that will work in the shell.

Since you're on Windows (based on the .exe extension), you need to run a command that will work well on Windows. As jvperrin states in the other answer, that may be explorer.

Upvotes: 0

jvperrin
jvperrin

Reputation: 3368

Try using the command explorer . instead.

Upvotes: 2

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