Absolute path and Relative path

See this ariticle on my own blog https://dyingdown.github.io/2020/01/29/Absolute-path-Relative-path/

There are two ways to represents a directory, Absolute path and Relative path.

path	start	start sign
Absolute	root directory	/
Relative	current directory	~

For example, when I open the terminal at first time, the default directory is /home/user

I want to see the folder “name1” under /user/names

cd /home/user/names/name1  // Absolute

or type

cd names/name1

Now we are at name1, and we want to go to name2 at /user/names/name2

cd ../names2

… represents the previous one directory of the current directory.

If I’m at names2, then “…” is names.

pwd  // to check your current directory

cd ~  // goes back to /home/user

to return the last directory(the one that your last command affect on)

cd -

It will also show it’s physical path. Like ~/Yao/Study/Blog

Or you can use

cd $OLDPWD

It’s the same to cd -.