In my previous article<\/a>, I described how you might, in Windows, create a text file, save it, then find it in the terminal. Now, I’ll describe the corresponding procedure in Linux – which I believe will be the same for the Mac. Once again: I don’t have a Mac, so I can’t be sure. It’s my impression, however, that Linux and Mac, for this purpose, are similar.<\/p>\n First, to create the file, you’ll open the text editor. In my flavour of Linux, it’s called “text editor”. You might write down a grocery list or colour choices for your paint:<\/p>\n maroon, cappuccino, red granite, basalt<\/p>\n Now, you’ll save that file. For convenience, you might create a new folder for PERL activities, then save the file in there. Perhaps you create the folder Now, you open the terminal – which, in my flavour of Linux, is called “terminal”. It’s in with the apps.<\/p>\n When I open the terminal, it puts me in what I’d call my “home” directory. To see the contents of the directory, I enter the command<\/p>\n ls<\/span><\/p>\n On my Linux terminal, ls<\/span> displays the directories in blue, while the files are in white. From the terminal’s point of view, a folder is a directory. You (hopefully) see “My_perl_programs” – or whatever you called your PERL folder – among the items listed by the ls<\/span> command. Maybe it’s even in blue.<\/p>\n Let’s assume you did call your PERL programs directory “My_perl_programs”. To go into it now, enter the command<\/p>\n cd My_perl_programs<\/span><\/p>\n Now, when you enter ls<\/span>, you should see your text file colours.txt<\/span> – or whatever you called it – listed. If you do see it, you have successfully created a text file, then found it in the terminal – which is, after all, the point of this article.<\/p>\n To my knowledge, the Mac procedure for accomplishing the tasks above is very similar – if not virtually the same. Perhaps now “everyone” knows how to create a text file, then find it in the terminal. Next step: writing a PERL script, then (hopefully) running it!<\/p>\n
\n“My_ perl_programs”. (Unlike with Windows, the Linux terminal may not tolerate spaces in names). Maybe you save the file as colours.txt<\/span> in your “My_perl_programs” folder.<\/p>\n\u00a0Three observations:<\/h4>\n
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\ncd meandmyself<\/span>, while in Linux, you can’t. You’d instead need to enter, literally, cd MeandMyself<\/span>.<\/li>\n