Linux commands: cd
A quick guide to the cd command, used to change folder
Once you have a folder, you can move into it using the cd
command. cd
means change directory. You invoke it specifying a folder to move into. You can specify a folder name, or an entire path.
Example:
mkdir fruits
cd fruits
Now you are into the fruits
folder.
You can use the ..
special path to indicate the parent folder:
cd .. #back to the home folder
The # character indicates the start of the comment, which lasts for the entire line after it’s found.
You can use it to form a path:
mkdir fruits
mkdir cars
cd fruits
cd ../cars
There is another special path indicator which is .
, and indicates the current folder.
You can also use absolute paths, which start from the root folder /
:
cd /etc
This command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment
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