?doing wrong,Can't seem to nav in terminal

Asked by Robert_Miller611

I am very new to UBUNTU/lin etc. Was a Bill Gates robot...not no more. Problem: I have followed every instruction on how to nav in terminal with no luck. I need to install a driver for my printer. I need to be that folder "HP Printer". I can't seem to get there. I have included what I am seeing in terminal. Help pls. Thank you

robertmiller@robertmiller-desktop:~$
robertmiller@robertmiller-desktop:~$ ls
araby.odt Firefox_wallpaper.png jre1.6.0_02 still.pdf
Desktop HP Printer SD_Channel_Lineup.pdf Truck.odt
Examples Incomplete Shared
robertmiller@robertmiller-desktop:~$ cd HP Printer
bash: cd: HP: No such file or directory
robertmiller@robertmiller-desktop:~$

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B. Clausius (barcc) said :
#1

cd "HP Printer"

The ""s are needed because the directory name contains a space character.
Another possibility is a backslash before the space:

cd HP\ Printer

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Robert_Miller611 (robert-miller611) said :
#2

What I did was have two brain cell fire at the same time "wow what a rush". I went in to Places>computer>Filesystem> to the dir with the file I needed and renamed it from "HP Printer" to "HPPrinter" Thanks problem solved

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Steve Carlton (motsteve) said :
#3

I'm not used to bash yet, but from the ~ directory, I can list out my directories. Descending into one of the directories that I know has loads of files, I get no files with ls -alF. I do see the . and .. files that establish my directory, but that already has been shown to work.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#4

Steve try:

ls -la

ls -la is the lower of "LS -LA"

Hope this helps

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Steve Carlton (motsteve) said :
#5

ls -al should be the same as ls -la. I don't think Unix is fussy about argument order here. I usually just put arguments in order like the man page says. It appears my set up of Ubuntu is like a Unix on to top of my Mac's normal FreeBSD.

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Steve Carlton (motsteve) said :
#6

I think I see what I'm doing wrong. I'm not using my brain. I need to remember I'm on a virtual machine. Ubuntu's unix is running next to mine. Files have to be moved from one machine to the other. I hope this helps someone as lost as I was.