What command changes from the current location in a directory to another directory?
cd / chdir
The Implementations[edit]The command has been implemented in operating systems such as Unix, DOS,
IBM OS/2,[1] MetaComCo
TRIPOS,[2] AmigaOS[3] (where if a bare
path is given, cd is implied), Microsoft Windows, ReactOS,[4] and
Linux. On MS-DOS, it is available in versions 2 and later.[5] DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of
the
The system call that effects the command in most operating systems is Command line shells on Windows usually use the Windows API to change the current working directory, whereas on Unix systems Windows PowerShell, Microsoft's object-oriented command line shell and scripting language, executes the Usage[edit]A directory is a logical section of a file system used to hold files.
Directories may also contain other directories. The Consider the following subsection of a Unix filesystem, which shows a user's
home directory (represented as A user's view of the file system in
Unix-like systems begins with the home directory (often abbreviated to If the user's current working directory is the home directory ( user@wikipedia:~$ ls workreports games encyclopedia text.txt user@wikipedia:~$ cd games user@wikipedia:~/games$ The user is now in the "games" directory. A similar session in DOS (though the concept of a "home directory" may not apply, depending on the specific version[vague]) would look like this: C:\> dir workreports DOS maintains separate working directories for each lettered drive, and also has the concept of a current
working drive. The Note that executing Executing the Options[edit]Unix, Unix-like[edit]
DOS, OS/2, Windows, ReactOS[edit]
Interpreters other than an operating systems shell[edit]In the File Transfer Protocol, the respective command is spelled The numerical computing environments MATLAB and
GNU Octave include a See also[edit]
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Which command changes the current working directory to a different directory in Linux?Linux treats the Home directory as the default working directory. Using the cd command in Linux allows you to change the current working directory. In this tutorial, we will explain the cd command syntax and show examples of how you can use it. A system running a Linux distribution.
What of the following commands changes your current directory?cd. This command changes your current directory location.
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