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Posted by Anthony Mattingly
Anthony Mattingly
13,601 Points

Seeing a (q) Inside Parentheses at the Start of Git Bash Command Line in Windows

I am very new to Git so this may seem like a silly question. I was following along with the video course work and upon trying to exit from a text window attempted tying "q" for quit. Now I am seeing a (q) at the end of my command line.

The following is what I see and what happens after typing "cd .." and "cd" after.

asmatt01@Anthony MINGW32 ~ (q) $ cd ..

asmatt01@Anthony MINGW32 /c/Users $ cd

asmatt01@Anthony MINGW32 ~ (q) $

This is probably a basic question. Not sure if I created an alternate directory or branch. If so, how can I delete it?

1 Answer

james south
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james south
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james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

you can list folders/files in a directory with the ls command (that's the letter ell). cd out of q then run ls, and also in q run ls to see if there's anything in it. there's an -a flag, ls -a, that will show hidden files as well. run help to see other options, ls --help. to delete a file you can use rm for remove. run help on rm to see that the -r flag is needed to delete folders.

Anthony Mattingly
Anthony Mattingly
13,601 Points

Thanks for the feedback. I tried looking for "q" as a hidden file and still no luck. I'm absolutely stumped. I guess I'll keep digging.