Elisa Beshero-Bondar PRO
Professor of Digital Humanities and Chair of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
List the contents of this directory
Change directory
Go home
Change directories into Documents/
You can only do this from the “parent” directory holding Documents/ (usually “home”)
Climb up to the parent directory
print working directory: This reports the file path on your computer
Fun fact: The word “print” in the shell to give a report of information dates back to the early days of programming!
command to create a new directory
creates a new directory named "GitHub" in the current location
[tab] key will autocomplete "Documents" if a directory starts with Doc
By Elisa Beshero-Bondar
introduction to navigating and organizing computer files at the command line
Professor of Digital Humanities and Chair of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.