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Development Tools Introduction to the Terminal Directories and Files Paths

Anthony Tiseo
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Anthony Tiseo
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I tried /resume.txt/documents and /documents/resume.txt but neither work. What's the correct answer?

I tried /resume.txt/documents and /documents/resume.txt but neither work. What's the correct answer?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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You were close the second time, but when creating a relative path, you don't start with a slash.

Anything starting with a slash is an absolute path, and in this case you don't have enough information to create one since the full path of the current location is not given.