Basic Linux Terminal Tips and Tricks: Learn to Work Quickly on the Command Line

© Philip Kirkbride 2020

P. KirkbrideBasic Linux Terminal Tips and Trickshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6035-7_2

2. File/Folder Navigation

Philip Kirkbride¹ 

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Montreal, QC, Canada

 

No matter what you’re doing in the terminal, you’ll want to be aware of where you are in the file structure of your system. You’ll also want to know how to navigate to other folders which have files you may need to work with. In this chapter, we’ll reiterate the basics and look at other tools and methods for navigating the filesystem.

Basics

The most basic commands that anyone on terminal should be aware of are ls to list structure and cd for change directory. Entering ls will return a list of files and folders in your current directory, and then you can move into directories ...