[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 63, Issue 10 hidden files

[Leslie Morland (MTH)]

Thanks Pete. 

Years ago I was a terminal  unix user!  Need to read the books again, 
have got lazy with the nice Mac interface. Did not use migration assistant,
 just dragged files from back-up disk, and copied from laptop.

This is a great forum.

Leslie 

On 17 Jan 2013, at 20:00, macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu wrote:

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> Am 16.01.2013 um 17:58 schrieb Leslie Morland (MTH):
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>>> I tried mkdir texmf in ~Library, and told permission denied
>> 
>> I tried after sudo, asked for password, but keyboard dead; could not type
>> anywhere in Terminal
> 
> Leslie, syntax plays in communication with computers a bigger role than in communication with humans. The latter ones can sometimes be intelligent, so they can forgive. In UNIX the character "~" has more than one meaning. When it it stands alone or left from a comment character ("#") or a command separator character (";"), then it is the abbreviation (short-cut) for this logged-in user's home directory. When it stands left from a slash character ("/"), then it starts as a "relative path assignment" starting at this logged-in user's home directory. When you find right from the tilde character any character that is an allowed component of a path or file name specification (usually letters and digits plus a few more), than the compound of ~ and name represents the home directory of the user "name".
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> So, ~/Library is the "Library" file or directory inside your home directory, and ~Library is the home directory of the user "Library" (who can have a "Library" folder there, which is ~Library/Library).
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>> 
>> I think set-up on replaced hard disk may be cause, but would appreciate
>> any suggestions to restore sense.
> 
> This is an a bit cheap excuse. With Migration Assistant, using a TimeMachine backup, everything is restored - even extra fonts in /Library/Fonts and all my TeX stuff, including that in /usr/local/texlive. (I had to perform that job today again because the built-in disk of my PowerBook started die this year and needed a replacement - after almost nine years.)
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>  Pete
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> There's no place like ~
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> Thanks Thomas and Herb,
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>      I now have my Library and texmf tree visible again; just need to find the files lost when I upgraded to 
> Mountain Lion, TexLive2012, and had hard disk replaced.
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> Leslie
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