Cannot open config file via Putty

[Pavelovec]

Hi,
I'm a beginner in this and I have a problem, that I cannot open octodash config file via Putty with "~/.config/octodash/config.json". It says Permission denied.

pi@octopi:~ $ ~/.config/octodash/config.json
-bash: /home/pi/.config/octodash/config.json: Permission denied

I want to access config files, because I want to change some custom actions.
Thank you very much for any advice.
PS: I am sorry for my English, it's not my native language.

[sam-dyer]

You need to do:
sudo nano /.config/octodash/config.json
This will open up the file in nano where you use the arrow keys to move around and Ctrl+X to exit it will then ask you to save if any changes were made: press ‘y’ to save the file or ‘n‘ not to save the file.

[UnchartedBull]

That is very unusual, you should have full permissions within your home folder. Did you somehow change those (with chmod for example)? And yes sudo is your friend in this case, thanks @I-like-stuff!

[Pavelovec]

I tried "sudo nano /.config/octodash/config.json" but it says that "[ Directory '/.config/octodash' does not exist ]".
I think that i didnt change it with chmod (to be honest I do not know what it does), yesterday I updated octodash from version 1.4 to 1.5, before update I could open config as usual, but after update it does not work anymore.
Thank you for any advice

[UnchartedBull]

Oh I guess there was a typo in i-like-stuffs answer. Needs to be nano ~/.config/octodash/config.json and if that doesn't work sudo nano ~/.config/octodash/config.json

[Pavelovec]

Oh I guess there was a typo in i-like-stuffs answer. Needs to be nano ~/.config/octodash/config.json and if that doesn't work sudo nano ~/.config/octodash/config.json

This works, thank you very much for everything!