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General Discussion

Terminal question

Fill in the blank to complete the command to change to the usr directory within the root directory.

treehouse:~/workspace$ ls / dev etc home opt usr treehouse:~/workspace$ cd

Cant find answer

7 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

The key here is "within the root directory", which tells you that you need an absolute path.

An absolute path always starts with a slash ("/"), followed by the directory name(s).

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

Not quite, that would change to the root directory itself.

Shanna vick-Morris
Shanna vick-Morris
6,683 Points

Would it be " /dev/etc/home/opt/usr"

cd / is the correct Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

That's not the correct answer for this question. See the comments above.

Fill in the blank to complete the command to change to the usr directory within the root directory.

treehouse:~/workspace$ ls / dev etc home opt usr treehouse:~/workspace$ cd

Answer: /usr

/usr