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Linux top 50 cmd - Cd

cd stands for change directory. You will find this command extremely useful. There are three typical ways of using this command: cd .. Moves one directory up the directory tree. cd ~ Moves to your home directory from wherever you currently are. This is the same as issuing cd by itself. cd directory name Changes to a specific directory. This can be a directory relative to your current location or can be based on the root directory by placing a forward slash (/) before the directory name. These examples can be combined. For example, suppose you were in the directory /home/dsp1234 and you wanted to go to tng4321's home account. You could perform the following command, which will move you back up the directory one level and then move you down into the tng4321 directory: cd ../tng4321