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Development Tools Introduction to the Terminal Directories and Files Shortcuts and Wildcards

Pui Lun Christin C Hebron
Pui Lun Christin C Hebron
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Pui Lun Christin C Hebron
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Fill in the blank to complete a command that will change directly to the images subdirectory within the user's home dire

Fill in the blank to complete a command that will change directly to the images subdirectory within the user's home directory. Use the ~ symbol to stand for the home directory.

treehouse:~/workspace/games/macpan$ ls ~
documents  images  games
treehouse:~/workspace/games/macpan$ cd

Not exactly understanding this?

6 Answers

rydavim
rydavim
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rydavim
rydavim
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So, they've put you in a directory that is not the home directory. The goal is to navigate back to the home (~) directory, and then to the images folder. You can do this in one step by chaining ~/directory1/directory2/etc. In this case, you can assume that images is a direct sub-folder of home.

Hopefully that helps, but let me know if you still have questions. Happy programming!

Demarcus Brooks
Demarcus Brooks
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Demarcus Brooks
Demarcus Brooks
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~/images

Islam Uddin
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Islam Uddin
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Islam Uddin
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the answer is ~

Zipporah Najar
Zipporah Najar
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Zipporah Najar
Zipporah Najar
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My thinking was you're trying to access the images directory from home directory so it would be ~/images

Billy Cheng
Billy Cheng
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Billy Cheng
Billy Cheng
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Can somebody please let me know why the answer: ~/images is not ~/images/ ????

jb30
jb30
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Either will work. The trailing / is optional.

Nicholas Prober
Nicholas Prober
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Nicholas Prober
Nicholas Prober
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Because the / at the end is not needed.