Directories

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Hi,
I have a very basic question concerning directories/directory transversal. I'm still new to this, but I have researched, googled, and banged my head against the keys trying to understand them. I've read up and completed basic mission 8 and 9. Now I am on realistic 3, but I just can not visualize how you travel through the directories. I know it's probably very obvious, but does anybody know of any visuals or ways I could understand? Sorry, if I made you lose brain cells reading this. =/

Sincerely,
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starting directory = "root/user/home"''

If you want to move to the user directory try:

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cd ..

The dots mean go back one directory.

Now lets say your in "user/home/programming", but there is a .txt file you want to copy to the programming directory:

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cp ../../*.txt newCopy.txt

for each directory you want to go back use the .. command, but if it's multiple directories don't forget the '/'. so it could be something like ../../programming/Current/smallScale/program.* file name.

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Thank you, very very much! ^.^

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You may want to check this out also:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.baseadmn/doc/baseadmndita/dir_pathnames.htm

Pay special attention to absolute vs. relative path names