Where am I?
The filesystem manages files and directories (or folders).
Each is identified by an absolute path
that shows how to reach it from the filesystem's root directory:
/home/repl
is the directory repl
in the directory home
,
while /home/repl/course.txt
is a file course.txt
in that directory,
and /
on its own is the root directory.
To find out where you are in the filesystem,
run the command pwd
(short for "print working directory").
This prints the absolute path of your current working directory,
which is where the shell runs commands and looks for files by default.
Run
pwd
.
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