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I. Learning the Shell > 2. Navigation
The first thing we need to learn (besides just typing) is how to navigate the filesystem on our Linux system. In this chapter we will introduce the following commands:
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pwd—Print name of current working directory. -
cd—Change directory. -
ls—List directory contents.
Like Windows, a Unix-like operating system such as Linux organizes its files in what is called a hierarchical directory structure. This means that they are organized in a tree-like pattern of directories (sometimes called folders in other systems), which may contain files and other directories. The first directory in the filesystem is called the root directory. The root directory contains files and subdirectories, which contain more files and subdirectories, and so on.
