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The <command>cd</command> command changes directories (<acronym>cd</acronym> stands for <quote>change directory</quote>). When a terminal window is opened, it will be located in the user's home directory. Moving around the file system requires the use of <command>cd</command>.

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To navigate into the root directory, type: <screen>cd /</screen>

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To navigate to the current user's home directory, type: <screen>cd</screen> or <screen>cd ~</screen>

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The <command>~</command> character represents the current user's home directory. As shown above, <command>cd ~</command> is equivalent to <command>cd /home/username/</command>. However, when running a command as root (using <command>sudo</command>, for example), <command>~</command> points to <filename class="directory">/root</filename>. When running a <command>cd</command> command with <command>sudo</command>, the full path to the home directory must be given.

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To navigate up one directory level, type: <screen>cd ..</screen>

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To navigate up two directory levels, type: <screen>cd ../../</screen>

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To navigate to the previous directory (go back), type: <screen>cd -</screen>

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To navigate through multiple levels of directories at once, specify the full directory path. For example, type: <screen>cd /var/log</screen> to go directly to the <filename class="directory">/log</filename> subdirectory of <filename class="directory">/var/</filename>. For another example, typing: <screen>cd ~/Desktop</screen> moves to the <filename class="directory">Desktop</filename> subdirectory inside the current user's home directory.

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ls - list files

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The <command>ls</command> command outputs a list of the files in the current directory (<acronym>ls</acronym> is short for <quote>list</quote>). For example, typing <screen>ls ~</screen> will display the files that are in the current user's home directory.