poking around in terminal

[Carlis]

When opening terminal I, like anyone else arrive in macintosh~myname

now I need to formulate some commands regarding regarding files located in macbookhd>opt... and so on. So either I need to be able to give absolute address, OR, I need to be able to move upwards in the file tree to macbook hd.

What to do?

 

[randomlinh]

cd .. -> goes up a directory
cd / -> goes to the root

I'd suggest looking up some basic unix commands before mucking around too much in terminal

 

[TheStu]

Word ^

 

[Carlis]

I know those commands but they only take me to my account (macintosh~myname ). They wont take me further up the file tree. I assume it has do to with privileges, that I dont have the "right" to reach them in terminal, which is kind of odd since I may do so using GUI.

 

[TheStu]

cd / takes me to the root... the prompt still reads "Hiro$ ", but before it, instead of a ~ there is now a / indicating that i am at root.

 

[MovingTarget]

Yeah, I suggest getting a book on the bash shell. I had one a while back about learning Bash (O'Rielly I think) that shows you how to not only work in it, but to modify its behavior. For instance, I do not see the prompt like you do. I modified it to read the current directory and history number for the current terminal session. You can't do too much damage in terminal unless you sudo (make me a sandwich) a command. Unless you are a programmer, there isn't much sense messing around in terminal as the GUI can do most everything. Good luck!

 

[TheStu]

Make me a sandwich

No

sudo (make me a sandwich)

Ok

 

[sourceninja]

the command pwd should tell you exactly where you are.