Navigating Files and Directories

cd path changes the current working directory.

ls path prints a listing of a specific file or directory; ls on its own lists the current working directory.

pwd prints the user’s current working directory.

/ on its own is the root directory of the whole file system.

Directory names in a path are separated with / on Unix, but \ on Windows.

.. means ‘the directory above the current one’; . on its own means ‘the current directory’.