Creating a directory in home directory 385-1

[raturi22]

Modifying The Filesystem | Dataquest

My Code:

/home/dq$ mkdir brets

DQ’s solution is mkdir /home/dq/brets.

Mission is to create a directory within home directory
Am not sure about the placement of mkdir. As per the lesson, it should be “mkdir brets” and not the code starting with mkdir as per DQ.

Also i am unable to type DQ 's solution in the DQ console by typing mkdir first, the prompt is displayed after mkdir/dq.

However i can see that new directory ‘brets’ has been created:

[Bruno]

Hey. I’m generally having a hard time understanding what your questions are. I’ll give it a shot.

@raturi22

DQ’s solution is mkdir /home/dq/brets.

Mission is to create a directory within home directory

Right.

@raturi22

Am not sure about the placement of mkdir.

I don’t know what you mean by this, specifically "placement of mkdir".

@raturi22

As per the lesson, it should be “mkdir brets” and not the code starting with mkdir as per DQ.

They both work. We want to create the directory brets in /home/dq.

@raturi22

Also i am unable to type DQ 's solution in the DQ console by typing mkdir first, the prompt is displayed after mkdir/dq.

I don’t know what you mean. Can you show us this?

@raturi22

However i can see that new directory ‘brets’ has been created:

This doesn’t look right. For instance, you should have the directory dir2 in there, but it’s not. What we see is dir2,.