I am pretty new to bioinformatics, and just installed bash and ubuntu on my PC. When I use the 'ls' command for my home directory, it shows only a few of the files and folders. It also neglects to show my genome vcf file. Terminal also does not recognize that there is a vcf file present when i try to read it in using vcftools....I'm thinking these problems are related. I've had success on the Mac computers in my lab on campus. Please help!

Thanks.


I figured it out, thanks everybody! Some of my files didn't have permission. So I used the ls -a to find out which files those were, then used sudo chmod 777 filename to enable access to them via terminal.