Changing Directories

Moving Around the Filesystem

cd stands for change directory. It moves your working directory to a new location.

Basic Usage

cd docs

This moves into the docs subdirectory of the current directory. After this, pwd would show /home/user/docs.

Relative vs Absolute Paths

A relative path is interpreted from your current location:

cd docs          # go into docs/ from wherever you are
cd ../..         # go up two levels

An absolute path starts from root:

cd /home/user    # always goes to /home/user, regardless of where you are
cd /etc          # always goes to /etc

Special Shortcuts

Your Task

Change into the docs directory and then print the working directory with pwd.