Question

Q3   

Explain the significance of these commands:

(i) cd ~henry ,

(ii) cd ~/henry ,

(iii) cd ~- ,

(iv) cd - .

Answer 1

i. cd~ henry

This command is used to switch to henry’s home directory.

~ Represents the home directory.

(ii)   cd ~/henry -if you want to navigate to the henry directory, which is inside your home directory, you would type the same.

(iii)   cd ~- directly changes to the previously used directory, without echoing anything.

(iv)   cd - Prints and Switches to previous working directory(toggle between recent directories)