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

Posted by yuehwencheng
yuehwencheng
29,154 Points

Which of these commands will NOT take you to your home directory, assuming your username is treehouse?

I do think the answer is 'cd /home/treehouse' because it looks like heading for the folder named treehouse instead of home. Please share some wisdom for my confusion... thx!

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

on linux systems your home directory is /home/<username>. so if your username is treehouse your home directory is /home/treehouse

typing any of these commands will take you to your home directory assuming your username is treehouse:

$ cd /home/treehouse
$ cd $HOME
$ cd ~

the ~ is just a shortcut for the home directory and $HOME is a variable whose value is the home directory

Shahzaib Awan
Shahzaib Awan
13,767 Points
Shahzaib Awan
Shahzaib Awan
13,767 Points

The Answer is "cd /home" it takes you to home directory not at your home directory according to your user name.,