linux navigate file system
# View file lists $ pwd /home/username $ ls . .. bin Desktop despacer.sh documentation.zip Documents Music people Pictures Public $ ls --classify . .. bin/ Desktop/ despacer.sh documentation.zip* Documents/ Music/ people/ Pictures/ Public/ # Open a folder $ pwd /home/username $ cd bin $ pwd /home/username/bin $ ls crossfade.sh fop normy.sh # Close a folder # If you're in one location because you used the cd command, # you can "close" that location by going back to your home directory. $ cd $ pwd /home/username # Navigate directories # Here are some example paths: /home/username/bin /home/username/despacer.sh /home/username/documentation.zip* /home/username/people # Because you return home often, your home directory can be abbreviated # as ~. For instance: ~/bin ~/despacer.sh ~/documentation.zip* ~/people # To navigate directly to the people folder: $ cd ~/people $ pwd /home/username/people # To change to the developers directory from your current location, # do the following: $ cd ./developers $ pwd /home/username/people/developers # To reach the to /home/seth/people/developers directory instantly # from anywhere, instantly: $ cd ~/people/developers $ pwd /home/username/people/developers # Tell cd to take you up one folder: (You can keep using this trick) $ cd .. $ pwd /home/username/people # You can also return home using this shortcut: $ cd ~ $ pwd /home/username # Or like this: $ cd $ pwd /home/username # Absolute paths # Use the absolute path to any location: $ cd ~/people/developers $ pwd /home/username/people/developers # To find where you want to go, use the ls command to "open" a # directory and look inside: $ ls --classify ~/people/ developers/ marketing/ $ cd /home/username/people/developers $ pwd /home/username/people/developers
