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- Welcome to the Command Line
- Starting Up the Terminal
- Getting Started
- Building Pipelines
- Running Commands as the Superuser
- Finding Help
- 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 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 navigating in the filesystem include the following.
- pwd: The pwd command allows 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, as shown in Figure A-1.
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cd:
The cd command allows you to change directories. When you open a terminal, you will be in your home directory. To move around the filesystem, use cd.
- Use cd ~/Desktop to navigate to your desktop directory.
- Use cd / 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).
- If you want to go directly to a specific, known directory location at once, use cd /directory/otherdirectory. For example, cd /var/www will take you directly to the /www subdirectory of /var.
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