Alan Thompson wrote: > alan@alan-laptop:~$ cd > alan@alan-laptop:~$ ".wine/drive_c/Programs\Files > > ls > > decadry > > cd decadry > > ls *.exe > > > > this is as far as I get . What am I doing wrong? > many thanks > Alan Thompson The > means it's waiting for you to finish your script or whatever; in other words, you did something wrong. Do this: cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/decadry/" ls *.exe wine one_of_those_files.exe Now, to show what you did wrong: alan@alan-laptop:~$ cd cd? Just cd? That brings you back to the home directory, meaning /home/alan/, also known as ~/, also known as $HOME. alan@alan-laptop:~$ ".wine/drive_c/Programs\Files 1. You're not telling the computer what to do. Do what with ".wine/drive_c/Programs\Files? 2. You missed a double quote at the end. Thanks to this, everything you try to type after having pressed enter will just make the command prompt wait until you end your command with a closing double quote ". 3. .wine/drive_c/Programs\Files doesn't exist. Here's a tip: you can press tab anything to get suggestions and autocomplete options when you're trying to find a directory. Example: Code: cd ~/.win<tab>/dr<tab>/Pr<tab>/deca<tab> This will get you into the right directory REALLY fast, without risk of mistyping a directory. You will also no longer need the double quotes as things like spaces get entered properly for the commandline to recognize. > ls > decadry > cd decadry > ls *.exe > This all does nothing because the program is waiting for you to put a closing " after the ".wine/drive_c/Programs\Files you had before these.
