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I am working on a ruby on rails application. I use the Cloud9 online IDE, which is Ubuntu.

When I go to the root directory, I can't open my .gitignore file. I know I'm in the right spot because when I'm in root and I type ls -la it lists all of my files, including .gitignore

I've seen other threads and some suggest using either open or see, followed by .gitignore. And they always work for OP. But neither of them work for me.

I tried this one:

open .gitignore`

But when I use that, I get the following error:

Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

And when I use this command: 

see .gitignore

I get the following error:

Warning: unknown mime-type for ".gitignore" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Error: no "view" mailcap rules found for type "application/octet-stream"

If anyone has any idea what's going on, please help me out. I can't find any other fix from other threads, other than using the two commands above.

Brady Dowling
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Parker
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    The `open` command likely isn't specific to Cloud9 (the error appears to match [`open(1)`](http://linux.die.net/man/1/open)) and you probably need to use a different command with the editor. [Another Q&A here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28028178/cloud-9-how-to-open-a-file-in-the-c9-editor-from-c9-terminal) suggests `c9 open .gitignore`, possibly needing to install it. (Haven't tried it myself, though.) – Jonathan Lonowski Sep 10 '16 at 14:34
  • Using `c9 open .gitignore` worked. Thank you. Wish I could make this the confirmed answer, but Callum arrived first. – Parker Sep 10 '16 at 15:11

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Can you see it in the left hand side bar? If not, in the left hand side bar click the little cog icon and then click 'show hidden files'.
Show Hidden Files

Hope this helped.

Callum Leslie
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  • It worked! Wow, I feel like a dunce. Thank you very much, Callum. I'm still confused as to why I couldn't open it with the terminal command, but for the purposes I need it at the moment, this is a perfectly adequate fix. Thank you very much. – Parker Sep 10 '16 at 15:07