You should be in your user directory (denoted as ~),
which is normally the same as /home/your_user_name
(replace your_user_name with your own). In Salix, this
directory contains Desktop, Music,
Documents and so on. To see its contents, type ls
and press enter. You will see something like this:
george[~]$ ls Desktop Download Pictures Templates salix Documents Music Music Videos
Now to move around directories, we use the command cd.
If you just type in cd and enter, it will take you to your
home directory, but as we are already there, in this case, nothing will
happen. cd must otherwise be followed either by a name of
a directory which is within the directory you are in or by a full path
to the directory you wish to move into. You can also go one directory
up by typing
cd ..
(be careful, there is a space between cd and ..
). Remember in Linux, arguments are separated by spaces. So for
now, let's move to the root directory. The root directory is, as the
name suggests, the core of your directories - every directory stems
from here.
To move to the root /, type in
cd /
Type in ls to see the list of files and directories in
the directory. You should see something like tmp/,
usr/, home and so on. OK, not so interesting here.
Let us move back to your home directory with
cd /home/your_user_name
or just
cd
Now move into the Music directory by issuing
cd Music
In fact, you do not have to type to the end. By pressing Tab after the first letter or two, you may complete the rest of the directory name automatically.
The important thing to notice here is this is a relative path
: unlike where the whole path was specified above, starting from the
root of the filesystem /, if the path doesn't begin with
/ it is understood as starting from whatever the current
directory is, in this case, your user's home. So Music, in
this case, means the same as /home/your_user_name/Music.