Lessons · Terminal · moving between folders

Moving around

cd folder moves you into a folder. cd .. goes up one. cd on its own goes home. cd - goes back to where you were before.

Hone is a place to practise programming. This is one of its lessons, written out in full and free to read without an account.

What it is for

Projects are trees of folders and every command runs from where you stand. Moving well is most of the skill.

Say the move out loud: into notes, up one, back to the last place. Then pwd if in any doubt.

mkdir -p demo/src demo/docs && cd demo

A project with two folders.

cd src

Into src.

pwd

Ends in /demo/src.

cd ..

Up one.

pwd

Ends in /demo.

cd docs

Into docs.

cd -

Back to the previous folder, and it prints where you landed: /demo.

Go up one folder.

cd

cd with a path that has a space in it, unquoted. cd my notes tries to enter 'my' and complains about 'notes'.

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