Linux Terminal Commands - Directory related commands

Working with directories (pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir commands)

command	description	example
pwd	Print working directory, shows the path where you are working.	[email protected]:~$ pwd /home/ih
cd	This command is used to change directory. You can enter in any directory by using this command.	[email protected]$ cd /usr/src [email protected]$ pwd /usr/src [email protected]$ cd /home/ih/code [email protected]$ pwd /home/ih/code
cd cd ~	cd and cd ~ do the same work, if you want to go to home directory. You can achieve this by using one of these commands.	[email protected]$ cd /home/ih/code [email protected]$ pwd /home/ih/code [email protected]$ cd [email protected]$ pwd /home/ih [email protected]$ cd ~ [email protected]$ pwd /home/ih
cd..	This command is used to go to one directory (parent directory) back.	[email protected]$ pwd /usr/local/bin [email protected]$ cd .. [email protected]$ pwd /usr/local
cd .	. (Dot) represent s the current directory, hence there will not any changes in the directory.
cd -	It’s a very useful and important command. It is used to go one step back.	[email protected]$ pwd /home/ih [email protected]$ cd /usr/src [email protected]$ pwd /usr/src [email protected]$ cd - /home/ih [email protected]$ cd - /usr/src
mkdir	This command is used to make a directory, you have to give the name of the directory followed by this command.	[email protected]:~$ mkdir folder1 [email protected]:~$ cd folder1 [email protected]:~/folder1$ mkdir dir1 [email protected]:~/folder1$ mkdir dir2 [email protected]:~/folder1$ ls -l drwxr-x--- 2 ih ih 2015/03/30 01:26:54 dir1 drwxr-x--- 2 ih ih 2015/03/30 01:27:00 dir2
mkdir -p	This command is used to create parent directories while you are creating a child directory. for example, if you want to create a dir1 under the games directory and you don’t have games directory, then you will have to use mkdir –p command. You can not create dir1 directly using mkdir command.	[email protected]:~$ mkdir -p games/dir1
rmdir	This command is used to remove the directory.	[email protected]:~$ rmdir /home/ih/mydir
rmdir -p	This command is used to remove subdirectories with their parent directories, i.e. recursively directory removal is possible by this command.	[email protected]:~$ rmdir -p games/dir1

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