Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Changing the current location

First, we will cover roscd, which is equivalent to the Linux bash cd command. Its advantage is that you only have to specify the package name in order to move to the location of the package:

$ roscd mygopigo

This will take you to the ~/catkin_ws/src/mygopigo/ folder. You can also navigate through the package folder structure by appending the relative path of the desired location. For example, to move to the src folder of the mygopigo package, use the following command:

$ roscd mygopigo/src

roscd is equivalent to the Linux cd command. It will change the prompt to the directory of any ROS package in your system by referencing its path with the package name. No matter what the actual path is, ROS will automatically ...