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Development Tools Introduction to the Terminal The Command Shell Command Options

Posted by Theresa Greene
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Theresa Greene
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 8,640 Points

I am not coming up with the same results

I am typing in the commands the instructor is but it's not coming up with the same results. For ls -a it's giving me . .. fiction non-fictions periodicals

Bolivar Arguello
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Bolivar Arguello
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 9,429 Points
Bolivar Arguello
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Bolivar Arguello
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 9,429 Points

for some reason, you change directory (cd library) which put you on a different folder, that most be why display something different when you run ls -a command. Type this on the command line to put you back on workspace directory.

cd workspace

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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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It looks like you are in the library directory. To go up one level type

cd ..

That is cd with two periods, then press enter