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Posted by Robert Ellefson
Robert Ellefson
5,672 Points

Totally screwed up my terminal environment...

I messed something up in my terminal environment by moving a file into my main treehouse directory, which overwrote the other directories and removed a bunch of stuff I need to proceed. How can I re-establish the terminal? Is there a way to get it to mirror the terminal that's being used in the examples? I've tried closing it and relaunching it but it's still screwed up.

Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points
Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points

could you be a little more specific. what command did you use?

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Robert Ellefson
Robert Ellefson
5,672 Points
Robert Ellefson
Robert Ellefson
5,672 Points

Thanks for the reply but I managed to get through it. I had moved the directory and renamed it at the same time, I think, so I wasn't recognizing it as I move through the directories. I'm still having a hard time holding a good mental model of the directory structures when I'm navigating through the command line, so I often feel very lost!

jasjassal2
jasjassal2
2,785 Points

Not sure what you're referring to when you say "I'm still having a hard time holding a good mental model of the directory structures". But if you type "ls" (Thats an L) into terminal it will give you all the files in the directory.