Relative and Absolute Paths

Learn about relative and absolute paths in a Linux environment for faster navigation.

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Relatives paths

So far, we’ve been navigating using relative paths. That means we’ve been specifying the destination relative to our current working directory or our current location on the filesystem. When we’re at the filesystem’s root and type cd var, the var directory is something we can see with the ls command. We and the ...