FAQ: Environment - nano

This community-built FAQ covers the “nano” exercise from the lesson “Environment”.

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I seem to be following the instructions and am not getting an error message but my little green box doesn’t get ticked…? please help

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There are three checkmarks in that exercise. Which one are you referring to?

The last one is to run a command which causes something to happen, did it?

Since most of it is about editing a file, what is the content of that file if you read it again from the file system?

When working on the exercise, I follow the directions and type:

alias pd=“pwd” CtrlO
file1 CtrlX
clear

but it wont check off the green box. What am I doing wrong? Nothing in the nano exercise seems to work.

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Same for me. I followed the instructions, but it won’t check off the green box either! A bit frustrated here and not sure what I’m doing wrong.

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yep! I’m in the same boat with all of you. I’m following the exercises and the little check boxes are not turning green.

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close the tab and reopen. It helped me

Am I the only one thinking that the whole “Command Line course” is a big mess?

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I am on the nano module of the Command Line course and it seems to be stuck. The box for number 2 (~/ .bash_profile) will not check. I’ve done the requested step several times. I do not get an error message, but the box won’t check for me to move on. I even closed out my browser and started fresh, but the box won’t check. Help.

I am having the same issue. I already reported it as a bug to Code Academy several days ago and have had no reply. This is really poor since I paid for the Pro version specifically in order to complete this course.
I have tried closing the tab and re-opening and it made no difference.

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I am following the instructions but the check box does not turn green once I complete the exercise, so it won’t let me progress on to the next question.
I have tried closing and re-opening the tab as suggested in some people’s answers, but that makes no difference.

What is the bash_profile?

Annoyingly, my firefox browser recognises CTRL + O command as ‘open file’ and every time I press it it opens the window for opening a file :woman_facepalming:
Is there any way to get around this issue?

i tried this too on command line course, right during the nano course

i am having the same exact issue at the same exact point on my course

tried everything still doesnt work ,

Hello @creed254 and welcome to the Codecademy Forums!

Could you elaborate a bit more on the issue you are having? I completed the course and this lesson worked fine for me.

Also, did you enter clear after editing the bash_profile ?

no, I’m not happy either.

Help help; I did something wrong at the start of the Environment lesson and I can’t get nano to reset. I enter clear and nothing happens.

Hello @progresspanda!

clear does not reset the terminal, it simply provides you with a blank terminal screen. Could you elaborate more on what issue you are having? What have you entered into the command line? And what step are you stuck on?