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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions File Ownership

Sebastian Eguez
Sebastian Eguez
8,248 Points
Posted by Sebastian Eguez
Sebastian Eguez
8,248 Points

What is "cd home"?

treehouse ~ $ ls
cd home   documents   hi.txt   pictures
treehouse ~ $

What is "cd home"?

How do I copy/fork/take a screenshot of what's in my console?

How do I remove "cd home"?

Jim's screen doesn't have a "cd home". Why?

3 Answers

Mike Constantino
Mike Constantino
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Mike Constantino
Mike Constantino
12,034 Points

'Cd home' will bring you back to the home directory depending on where your at. Cd is the command you use to navigate through directories in the terminal. I don't fully understand your question, however.... where are you seeing this?

Sebastian Eguez
Sebastian Eguez
8,248 Points
Sebastian Eguez
Sebastian Eguez
8,248 Points

In the console.

How can I copy what's in my console (so you can see it)(like forking/taking a snapshot on Workspaces)?

I see "cd home" when I enter "ls" and "ls -l".

When I enter "ls -l", it appears as: 

-rw-r--r-- 1 treehouse treehouse   0 Jul 21 01:19 cd home

And then a few others.

And then...

"rm cd home"

=

rm: cannot remove `cd': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `home': No such file or directory

Jim, the instructor, doesn't have a "cd home" on his console. Why do I?

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Why do you want to remove anything there? Does that impede your work in any way?

ywang04
ywang04
6,762 Points
ywang04
ywang04
6,762 Points

As Mike said 'cd home' will bring you back to the home directory depending on where your at. 

treehouse ~ $ ls
cd home   documents   hi.txt   pictures
treehouse ~ $

From this output, it seems like you created a file or directory named "cd home" instead of using "cd home" as a command.

You can use "ls -l" to print long form of your file list to double check my assumption.