I elevated to root user with sudo su
then I made the mistake of trying to move a file to my logged in profile's desktop with mv a.zip ~/desktop
. As a result, I am unable to locate the a.zip
file. I tried searching the file system through the GUI. Moreover while still elevated as root the cd ~/desktop
command says location does not exist.
Where is a.zip
now? This occurred in OSX operating system, v10.11 I believe.
sudo su
again, thencd ~/
and thenls
. My suspicion is that you have a new file called desktop that looks like your zip.