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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 8,433 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 7,522 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
54,582 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,582 Points

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