Newbie here,
Following this tutorial that says: $ rails new blog.
I type it into the shell window and get this: ‘$’ is not recognized as
an internal or external command.
What’s up with that?
On 1 Apr 2011, at 19:20, wordmystic wrote:
Newbie here,
Following this tutorial that says: $ rails new blog.
I type it into the shell window and get this: ‘$’ is not recognized as
an internal or external command.What’s up with that?
The ‘$’ just represents the command prompt that your shell window
presents to you (it’s the default command prompt in Bash on UNIX). You
don’t need to type it. Just type “rails new blog”.
Chris
On Apr 1, 7:20pm, wordmystic [email protected] wrote:
Newbie here,
Following this tutorial that says: $ rails new blog.
I type it into the shell window and get this: ‘$’ is not recognized as
an internal or external command.What’s up with that?
You’re not supposed to type the $ - it’s just what the command prompt
looks like on some setups.
Fred
It’s a convention in many tutorials to show you the dollar sign as an
example of your shell prompt. It just means “as a regular user, type
this”, as opposed to a # prompt, meaning you have to su to root first.
Don’t type either character if you see them at the beginning of a
sample shell command line.
Walter
On Apr 1, 11:20am, wordmystic [email protected] wrote:
Newbie here,
Following this tutorial that says: $ rails new blog.
I type it into the shell window and get this: ‘$’ is not recognized as
an internal or external command.What’s up with that?
Is this an April Fools joke?