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16.2 Getting From Here to There: cd 223

cd ..

and you’ll ﬁnd yourself at the root directory.

Using relative paths, get yourself back to your login directory by typing:

cd home/billy

Doesn’t look much different from absolute paths, does it? Notice, though, that there’snoforward

slashinfrontofhome. In essence, you were saying, “go one directory down, to home,thengoto

billy,inthehome directory.”

Tip: Whenever you want to quickly jump back to your login directory just type cd ˜

anywhere in the system.

That wasn’t much of a demonstration.

Try this: from your login directory, type:

cd ../../etc/X11

Now, you’re in the directory X11,whichiswhereyou’ll ﬁnd conﬁguration ﬁles and directories re-

lated to the X Window System.

Please Note: You can always type pwd to ﬁnd out where you are in the directory tree. And you can

get back to your login directory with the cd ˜ command.

Take a look at your last cd command. What you were really telling your system was, “go up to the

parent directory, then up to that directory’s parent directory (which is the root directory), then go to

the etc directory and from there, to the X11 directory.”

Using an absolute path would also get you to the X11 quickly. Type:

cd /etc/X11

and you’re there.

Tip: Always make sure you know which working directory you’re in before you state

the relative path to the directory or ﬁle you want to get to. You don’t have to worry about

your position in the ﬁlesystem, though, when you state the absolute path to another

directory or ﬁle.

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