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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Reading Files

Ting-Chieh Huang
Ting-Chieh Huang
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Posted by Ting-Chieh Huang
Ting-Chieh Huang
3,387 Points

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

A: cd ~

B: cd $HOME

C: cd /home

D: cd /home/treehouse

I tried all the answsers on my Mac and they all worked. Why the answers is C? Thank you

1 Answer

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
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Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,667 Points

/home is the location of all home directories, not a specific user's home directory.