root command not found

Question

I'm trying to setup a blog using octopress by following this guide. I'm stuck at the step where I do

root: /octopress 

and my terminal shows

bash: root:: command not found

My echo PATH output

/Users/aniruddhabarapatre1/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/bin:/Users/aniruddhabarapatre1/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1@global/bin:/Users/aniruddhabarapatre1/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/Users/aniruddhabarapatre1/.rvm/bin

Answer 1

This should be an edit in a file _config.yml, not a command:

modify _config.yml

root: /octopress  #this is important since we intend the blog to be project page, instead of organization page

So you must edit that _config.yml file to add/modify that line.