| command |
description |
example |
| pwd |
Print working directory, shows the path where you are working. |
ih@linux:~$ pwd
/home/ih
|
| cd |
This command is used to change directory. You can enter in any directory by using this command. |
ih@linux$ cd /usr/src
ih@linux$ pwd
/usr/src
ih@linux$ cd /home/ih/code
ih@linux$ 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. |
ih@linux$ cd /home/ih/code
ih@linux$ pwd
/home/ih/code
ih@linux$ cd
ih@linux$ pwd
/home/ih
ih@linux$ cd ~
ih@linux$ pwd
/home/ih
|
| cd.. |
This command is used to go to one directory (parent directory) back. |
ih@linux$ pwd
/usr/local/bin
ih@linux$ cd ..
ih@linux$ 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. |
ih@linux$ pwd
/home/ih
ih@linux$ cd /usr/src
ih@linux$ pwd
/usr/src
ih@linux$ cd -
/home/ih
ih@linux$ 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. |
ih@linux:~$ mkdir folder1
ih@linux:~$ cd folder1
ih@linux:~/folder1$ mkdir dir1
ih@linux:~/folder1$ mkdir dir2
ih@linux:~/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. |
ih@linux:~$ mkdir -p games/dir1
|
| rmdir |
This command is used to remove the directory. |
ih@linux:~$ 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. |
ih@linux:~$ rmdir -p games/dir1
|