Unable to edit .bashrc

[Yuchen F]

I tried to edit ~/.bashrc to add the path. But even when I used ‘sudo vim ~/.bashrc’, I still got the error ‘can’t open file for writing’. I am wondering why this happened. Thanks!

[Yuchen F]

When I tried to use the command ‘gedit ~/.bashrc’, I got the error ‘Could not find the file “/home/atlab/¬/.bashrc”.’ It seems that this file does not exist.

[Simon King]

That error indicates that it is looking for the file /home/atlab/¬/.bashrc. I think you are typing the incorrect tilde character. This is a special character for the shell and is expanded to your home directory, which is /home/atlab/.

If you can’t find the correct tilde on your keyboard, either cut-and-paste it from the instructions, or use the full path to the file instead:

$ gedit /home/atlab/.bashrc

or do it from your home directory:

$ cd
$ gedit .bashrc

[Yuchen F]

It works now. Thank you!

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