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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Running Commands

Posted by Michael Coffey
Michael Coffey
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How do you find the etc directory? It doesn't show up on the ls -a command

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2 Answers

Aleksandra Klochko
Aleksandra Klochko
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Aleksandra Klochko
Aleksandra Klochko
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in the home directory prompt ls /etc

Steve Gallant
Steve Gallant
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Steve Gallant
Steve Gallant
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It is because the "etc" directory is not a sub-directory of your current directory, but rather it is located under the root location (aka "/"). That is why you must specify the slash when running the "ls -a" command for the "etc" directory while running the command from your current location. If you were to change directories up to the root, you could then leave out the slash character. hope it helps! Steve