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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Moving and Deleting Files

hector alvarado
hector alvarado
15,796 Points
Posted by hector alvarado
hector alvarado
15,796 Points

Accidently I typed cd /..// and took me to another root that wasnt home, no tilde instead a / appear what happened

I want to understand what happened there and what does / mean instead of ~??

1 Answer

Jan Oberreiter
Jan Oberreiter
78,020 Points
Jan Oberreiter
Jan Oberreiter
78,020 Points

$ cd ~ OR $ cd $HOME OR $ cd ~/

they should all bring you "home" ... and you cannot type the / instead of ~... just both together ...