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aurel
aurel

Reputation: 3122

How to navigate to to different directories in the terminal (mac)?

I have just installed sass and I am now tryring to access the sass file. For example:

sass --watch ~/Desktop/sass/css/style.css:style.css

and the error is "no such file or directory" - So how can I do this?

My mac version is 10.6.8

Upvotes: 27

Views: 446974

Answers (1)

simont
simont

Reputation: 72547

To check that the file you're trying to open actually exists, you can change directories in terminal using cd. To change to ~/Desktop/sass/css: cd ~/Desktop/sass/css. To see what files are in the directory: ls.

If you want information about either of those commands, use the man page: man cd or man ls, for example.

Google for "basic unix command line commands" or similar; that will give you numerous examples of moving around, viewing files, etc in the command line.

On Mac OS X, you can also use open to open a finder window: open . will open the current directory in finder. (open ~/Desktop/sass/css will open the ~/Desktop/sass/css).

Upvotes: 52

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