Quick Answer: How to Navigate to a Folder in Terminal Ubuntu?
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File & Directory Commands

  • To navigate into the root directory, use “cd /”
  • 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 -“

How do I change directories in terminal?

How to change directory in Linux terminal

  1. To return to the home directory immediately, use cd ~ OR cd.
  2. To change into the root directory of Linux file system, use cd / .
  3. To go into the root user directory, run cd /root/ as root user.
  4. To navigate up one directory level up, use cd ..
  5. To go back to the previous directory, use cd –

How do I access a directory in Ubuntu terminal?

Press ctrl + alt + t .It will open gnome terminal,Then run the below commands to install nautilus-open-terminal.

Other easy method that you can do is :

  • In Terminal, type cd and make a space infrot.
  • Then Drag and Drop the folder from the file browser to the Terminal.
  • Then Press Enter.
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