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- Starting Up the Terminal
- Moving around the Filesystem
- Manipulating Files and Folders
- System Information Commands
- Searching and Editing Text Files
- Dealing with Users and Groups
- Getting Help on the Command Line
- Searching for Man Files
- Using Wildcards
- Executing Multiple Commands
- Moving on to More Advanced Uses of the Command Line
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Moving around the Filesystem
Commands for moving around the file system include the following:
- pwd: The pwd command will allow you to know the directory in which you're located (pwd stands for "print working directory").For example, pwd in the desktop directory will show ~/Desktop. Note that the GNOME Terminal also displays this information in the title bar of its window. See the example presented in Figure A-1.
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cd:
The cd command will allow you to change directories. When you open a terminal you will be in your home directory. To move around the file system you will use cd. For example, cd ~/Desktop will move you to your desktop directory.
- To navigate into the root directory, use cd /
- To navigate to your home directory, use cd~
- To navigate up one directory level, use cd ..
- To navigate to the previous directory (or back), use cd -
- To navigate through multiple levels of directory at once, use cd / var/www for example, which will take you directly to the /www subdirectory of /var/.
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