Absolute and Relative Paths¶

Path Separator ¶

First off: in UNIX, the path separator is the forward slash: / (as opposed to Doze which chose the backslash, \)

Relative Paths ¶

Don’t begin with a /
Interpreted relative to the current working directory (CWD)

Being in my home directory, change into the Documents subdirectory of it¶

$ pwd
/home/jfasch
$ cd Documents
$ pwd
/home/jfasch/Documents

From there, change into its neighbor directory, Downloads¶

$ cd ../Downloads
$ pwd
/home/jfasch/Downloads

Absolute Paths ¶

Start with a /
“Relative” to the root directory
⟶ Independent of CWD

$ cd /etc
$ pwd
/etc