LinuxShellCommandsCD

The command cd is short for Change Directory. Directory, for those brought up on a diet of Windows, is another word for folder.

cd / - This takes you to the root folder of the system.
cd .. - This takes you up one level in the directory tree (e.g. if you were in /usr/bin, typing this would place you in /usr).
cd /etc - Putting a / at the start allows you to specify a path from the root directory (e.g. an absoloute path).
cd foobar - This takes you into the directory foobar within the current directory (provided it exists).

Of course, you can put these together to do things like this:-

cd ../etc - If you typed this while you were in the /bin folder, then you would go up a level and then into the /etc folder, but all in one go rather than it taking 2 commands.

last edited (December 4, 2002) by infidel, Number of views: 1779, Current Rev: 2 (Diff)