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15 Practical Examples of cd Command in Linux

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Apr 7, 2020

In Linux ‘cd’ (Change Directory) command is one of the most important and most widely used command for newbies as well as system administrators. For admins on a headless server, cd?is the only way to navigate to a directory to check log, execute a program/application/script and for every other task. For newbie it is among those initial commands they make their hands dirty with.

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