macOS Copying Files from Package Files

[Tomar]

Hello

I'm trying to copy a file with a specific extension out of a package file and into another directory.

I used the following in terminal:

cp filename.package/*.txt .

I keep getting the following error:

cp: filename.package/*.txt: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong???

 

[Terminated]

Hello

I'm trying to copy a file with a specific extension out of a package file and into another directory.

I used the following in terminal:

cp filename.package/*.txt .

I keep getting the following error:

cp: filename.package/*.txt: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong???

I can think of two possibilities:

1) It may be that filename.package is not in the current working directory.

2) Or it may be that there is no file with extension .txt in the first level of the directory filename.package.

Both situations would cause the same error message.

 

[Tomar]

I can copy the file using the aforementioned command if specify the filename

cp filename.package/textfilename.txt .

However, it doesn't seem to work when I try to use the wildcard

cp filename.package/*.txt .

The name of the text file changes when a new package file which is why I'm trying to copy it using a wildcard and the file extension

 

[chown33]

Post the output of this command line:

ls -ld filename.package ; ls -la filename.package ; id

Copy and paste the exact command-line into Terminal. Copy and paste the complete unchanged output into a reply here, including any error messages that may appear.