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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Moving and Deleting Files

Posted by Carmen Ibarcena
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Carmen Ibarcena
iOS Development Techdegree Student 8,296 Points

Hello, I have a question why when I try to create a folder inside another folder on my computer's terminal

It tell me the permission is denied. mkdir: documents/notes/important: Permission denied

Thank you in Advance,

PS I am new in this program.

Thanks

1 Answer

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Use sudo

sudo mkdir test

or better yet fix your permissions by making sure you own it.

chown myusername:myusername documents/

chown means change ownership. You may not own the folder and root may own it while your not using root.