Navigating Files and Folders

Navigating directories

The cd command lets us change directories. It’s the tool for changing our current working directory, or the location on the filesystem. As we’ve already seen, using cd by itself takes us straight to our home directory:

$ cd

Then, we execute the pwd command to check our location. We’ll then see a file path displayed:

$ pwd

If you’ve built a website and referenced images or CSS files, or written code to work with files, you’re already familiar with the concept of specifying paths to files.

The home directory is just one part of the filesystem. The filesystem is a hierarchy of files and directories, starting at the root directory, which we represent with the forward-slash character ( ...