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The Terminal: Navigation

“First let’s take a look our first tool we’ll be
using today, pwd. The pwd tool means print working directory. This
tool tells you where you currently are in the directory tree. The
cd tool is used to change from one directory to another. cd is the
command, while the directory path you wish to change to is the
argument. The ls command is used to show the contents of a given
directory. It uses the same syntax as the cd command, though ls
also has various flags you can use to tell it how exactly to list
your files.”


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