06. Navigating directories (ls, cd, ..)
Navigating directories
Managing your directories and file structure in your computer or servers is an important skill you need to use in the development and deployment phases in your Web development.
In this concept, we are going to show you how to use the Shell with multiple commands to navigate and organize your files.
Use the workspace below the video to practice the commands and remember to practice locally in your computer too.
Ud206 006 Shell P3 - Navigating Directories
Commands:
ls
: List the files in the directory.cd
: Move to a different directory.
## Instructor Notes
If you are using the Git Bash on Windows you will find that some of your directories have spaces in the name like My Pictures
in this case you need to use the command in this way cd 'My Pictures'
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## Workspace
You can use this workspace to test your commands
Workspace
This section contains either a workspace (it can be a Jupyter Notebook workspace or an online code editor work space, etc.) and it cannot be automatically downloaded to be generated here. Please access the classroom with your account and manually download the workspace to your local machine. Note that for some courses, Udacity upload the workspace files onto https://github.com/udacity, so you may be able to download them there.
Workspace Information:
- Default file path:
- Workspace type: repl
- Opened files (when workspace is loaded): n/a
ls and cd
SOLUTION:
- `ls Pictures`
- `cd Pictures; ls`
- `ls Pictures/../Pictures`