Fernando
Hello, im new to elixir and new to linux(using ubuntu 14.04 now), started this week. Im following this http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/modules.html i feel like is a fool question but how i create a file? or where i have tu put? i created one with sublime text 2 but can’t compile in the terminal. Also if you have any advices of learning, would be great! .Thx.
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NobbZ
To give you the best help on this we need to know how exactly you created that file using sublime and how you tried to compile it. Both including full path of where saved and where run the commands to compile.
NobbZ
Then you’ll have to check where sublime saved the file on disk, open a terminal
cdto that path and try elixir command again. If this sentence means nothing to you, you should start out with a Linux tutorial. I don’t have on at hand, I was guided through my first Linux steps 20 years ago, long before we had internet at home by a friend of my father. Before that I’ve grown up with DOS so some concepts were already known to me.ejc123
I found that reading this part of the guide and then using mix to create a new project was helpful.
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NobbZ
The
PATH-variable is set that the operating system is able to find an executable that is called “unqualified”. You can always call an executable file by qualifing it as in “./configure” or “/usr/bin/bash”. No executable file will ever look atPATHto find a file that’s given to it as an argument (unless it has very obscure reasons to). If you need to give a file as an argument to an executable, then you always need to specify its relative path to the current working directory (or the full path from the root of the filesystem).