You can find the Terminal application at Applications/Accessories/Terminal, or it may already be on your menu bar.
(that’s an l the letter, not the number 1)
Type each of these commands and hit enter:
ls
This lists all the files in your home directory:
pwd
This displays the full directory path to your current directory, which is your home directory:
cd /
This will change you into the / root directory:
ls
This lists the contents of the / root directory:
cd home
This will change you into the home subdirectory of the / root directory:
ls
You should see a list of all the files in /home, including the directory for your username – your home directory:
pwd
This displays the full directory path to your current directory, /home:
cd ..
.. means “parent directory”, so this command moved you up to the parent directory. You were in /home, so now you are in /, the root directory:
ls
This lists the contents of the root directory, confirming where you are.
Answer these questions. Experiment at the command line if you need to! If you aren’t sure about an answer, ask a helper.
You’ve practiced using ls, pwd, and cd to navigate your computer’s filesystem from the command prompt.