Comments on: Navigating files and folders http://www.freemacunix.com/navigating-files-and-folders/ Terminal for the Rest of Us Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:09:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bart http://www.freemacunix.com/navigating-files-and-folders/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Bart Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:50:17 +0000 http://www.freemacunix.com/navigating-files-and-folders/#comment-60 using "cd -" will change the directory to the previous directory where you were (almost like a back button in a browser) using “cd -” will change the directory to the previous directory where you were (almost like a back button in a browser)

]]> By: Nathan Sweeney http://www.freemacunix.com/navigating-files-and-folders/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Nathan Sweeney Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:39:29 +0000 http://www.freemacunix.com/navigating-files-and-folders/#comment-56 A few more notes of interest for navigating files and folders. To get back your Home directory you can use 'cd ~' or just simple 'cd' with no specified path will take you back to your Home. The two dots (..) can also be used to refer to a directory, not just only to go up one directory. For instance if you were in /Users/richard/Movies and wanted to get to /Users/richard/Pictures, instead of using the absolute path you could say 'cd ../Pictures'. Also, to make navigating quicker, you can type the first few characters of a directory or file name and press tab, and it will auto complete up to the point where there are several files or directories that start the same way. For instance, if I type cd /App and hit tab, it will fill out Applications, because nothing else in my root directory begins with App. Since I have Classic mode installed I have a /System for OS X and a /System Folder for OS 9. If I typed 'cd /Sys' and pressed tab, it would fill out System. If I actually wanted System Folder, I would have to then type a little more '\ F' (remember the preceding '\' when you have a space in a file or directory name) and hit tab again and it would finish out the whole 'cd /System\ Folder' A few more notes of interest for navigating files and folders.

To get back your Home directory you can use ‘cd ~’ or just simple ‘cd’ with no specified path will take you back to your Home.

The two dots (..) can also be used to refer to a directory, not just only to go up one directory. For instance if you were in /Users/richard/Movies and wanted to get to /Users/richard/Pictures, instead of using the absolute path you could say ‘cd ../Pictures’.

Also, to make navigating quicker, you can type the first few characters of a directory or file name and press tab, and it will auto complete up to the point where there are several files or directories that start the same way.

For instance, if I type cd /App and hit tab, it will fill out Applications, because nothing else in my root directory begins with App. Since I have Classic mode installed I have a /System for OS X and a /System Folder for OS 9. If I typed ‘cd /Sys’ and pressed tab, it would fill out System. If I actually wanted System Folder, I would have to then type a little more ‘\ F’ (remember the preceding ‘\’ when you have a space in a file or directory name) and hit tab again and it would finish out the whole ‘cd /System\ Folder’

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