Goto Parent Directory

anjanesh · 01-02-2006, 11:31 PM

Say Im in /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4
Im using Putty and each time I got to type cd /dir1/dir2/dir3 to goto dir3.
Whats the Windows equivalent of cd.. ?

Thanks

Nylex · 01-02-2006, 11:44 PM

It's the same thing under Linux, "cd .." will take you up a level.

anjanesh · 01-03-2006, 12:01 AM

Ah...thanks...all this time I was typing cd.. (no space in b/w cd and ..) which works in Windows.

merchtemeagle · 01-03-2006, 12:16 AM

You can put alias 'cd..'='cd ../' in your .bashrc file in your home directory.

jrdioko · 01-03-2006, 12:30 AM

As a brief explanation, "cd" is "change directory", "." is an abbreviation for the current directory ("pwd"), whatever that may be, and ".." is an abbreviation for the parent directory (one directory back). They're useful in many contexts besides "cd ..", e.g. things like "cd ../dir1" or "./blah.sh" to run a file not in your PATH.

merchtemeagle · 01-03-2006, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jrdioko

the current directory ("pwd"), whatever that may be.

Print Working Directory

edit: I get what you mean, whatever the current directory may be.

jrdioko · 01-03-2006, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by merchtemeagle

Print Working Directory

Meant that as "pwd" will print your working directory, whatever your working directory happens to be at the time. But that works too