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Changing Directories

17 Jun 2018

We can navigate Linux systems in the command line using the cd command.

View Current Working Directory

pwd

/home/chris

List Subdirectories

Note -d */ is a hacky means to list only directories (not files) in a directory.

ls -d */

anaconda3/  automatic_backups/  Desktop/  Documents/  Downloads/  Music/  nvvp_workspace/  Pictures/  Public/  Templates/  tensorflow/  Videos/

Change To A Directory Using An Absolute Path

cd /home/chris/anaconda3

View Current Working Directory

pwd

/home/chris/anaconda3

Go Up One Directory

cd ..

View Current Working Directory

pwd

/home/chris

Go Up To A Subdirectory

cd anaconda3

View Current Working Directory

pwd

/home/chris/anaconda3

Note: Linux systems often can autocomplete commands. We can take advantage of this by typing cd then the first letter of the subdirectory and pressing tab. Linux should autocomplete the name - saving us some time.