Question: How to Go up a Directory in Linux?
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To navigate to your home directory, use “cd” or “cd ~” To navigate up one directory level, use “cd ..” To navigate to the previous directory (or back), use “cd -” To navigate through multiple levels of directory at once, specify the full directory path that you want to go to.

How do you go up a directory in Unix?

Go up one level to your login directory’s parent directory (probably /home) Then go up to that directory’s parent (which is the root, or /, directory) Then go down to the etc directory. Finally, go to the X11 directory.

How do I go into a directory in Linux?

To change to the current working directory’s parent directory, type cd followed by a space and two periods and then press [Enter]. To change to a directory specified by a path name, type cd followed by a space and the path name (e.g., cd /usr/local/lib) and then press [Enter].

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