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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Moving Around the Filesystem

Posted by Peter Bandsholm
Peter Bandsholm
2,021 Points

the quiz confuses me. It asks me to point out what command that does not take me home. I think it is $HOME.

please correct me if I'm wrong

3 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

In Bash, $HOME is the same thing as typing out ~.

So no, that isn't the answer.

This command doesn't take you to home:

cd /home

Because you have to type the user before it like this:

cd /alexander/home
Michael Harper
Michael Harper
14,741 Points
Michael Harper
Michael Harper
14,741 Points

Me too a little... cd ~ and cd $HOME are environmental/logical and should always work. The other two options, cd /home and cd /home/treehouse are local, and relate to how the directory structure was set up in the previous lesson. They hint that 'your name is treehouse' is correct, which leaves...

Peter Bandsholm
Peter Bandsholm
2,021 Points

one option

Peter Bandsholm
Peter Bandsholm
2,021 Points
Peter Bandsholm
Peter Bandsholm
2,021 Points

I don't seem to be able to make the dollar sign on my keyboard, that might be a glitch. I have a danish keyboard config.