Probably easy command line problem

steinooo · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:22

Hi all,

When I browse my linux machine's filestructure using filezilla (logged in as user xbmc) I see in /home/xbmc/ a folder called .sickbeard

however when I'm in a command line session and try to "cd /home/xbmc/.sickbeard" it says "-bash: cd: /home/xbmc/.sickbeard: Not a directory"

any ideas please?

tntcoder · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:27

It means sickbeard is a hidden file, not a directory. The . inidicates the hidden, the error indicates it's a file.

If you have a command session open, run "cat /home/xbmc/.sickbeard" and see what the output is.

steinooo · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:34

tntcoder said:
It means sickbeard is a hidden file, not a directory. The . inidicates the hidden, the error indicates it's a file.

If you have a command session open, run "cat /home/xbmc/.sickbeard" and see what the output is.

oh right? I ran that and LOADS of gibberish flied over my command line session ending in PuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTY x 100000 ?! does this help?

randal · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:36

Binary file?

Do an ls -la, is it executable? Guessing this is the same Sickbeard that watches feeds for new episodes to download then racks them up on your torrent client?

tntcoder · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:37

Hmm ok, that probably means .sickbeard is a binary file.

What are you actually trying to do? Google suggests sickbeard is a usenet / sabnzb related thing?

If you are trying to install it then it looks like you've done it incorrectly. .sickbeard is supposed to be a directory (as you are expecting), but it appears you may have renamed the wrong thing.

Is that any help?

GeForce · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:38

What is the output of `file ~xbmc/.sickbeard` ?

steinooo · 7 Oct 2010 at 08:41

thanks very much GeForce, tntcoder and randal24, you were right I had installed the program incorrectly. What I'd done is copied across a .tar.gz file and renamed it to .sickbeard, thinking that when I extract it, it'll go into a folder called .sickbeard but this won't work as there's already a file of that name. So I just extracted it as its original file name then copy the contents to a freshly user created folder.

thanks very much again

Bes · 7 Oct 2010 at 12:35

Just type "file <filename>" and see what comes back