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Where can I go?

In the shell type the command:

bash$ ls -al
total 48
drwx------    4 bob      bob          4096 Feb 26 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Feb 26 10:33 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 bob      bob            24 Feb 26 10:33 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--    1 bob      bob           224 Feb 26 10:33 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--    1 bob      bob           124 Feb 26 10:33 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--    1 bob      bob          5450 Feb 26 10:33 .canna
drwxr-xr-x    2 bob      bob          4096 Feb 26 10:33 Desktop
-rw-r--r--    1 bob      bob           747 Feb 26 10:33 .emacs
drwxr-xr-x    3 bob      bob          4096 Feb 26 10:33 .kde
-rw-r--r--    1 bob      bob          3728 Feb 26 10:33 .screenrc
-r--r--r--    1 bob      bob          1019 Feb 26 10:33 .wl

This should list all of the files in the current directory. If you look at the output you will see a list of letters and dashes, a number, two names, a number, a date then a file name for each file. Each entry that starts with a d is a directory. You can change into any of those directories as long as you have permissions.



Joseph Colton 2002-09-24