Questions tagged [cd-command]
Is for questions about `cd` built-in bash command (e.g. how it works).
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Why doesn't using two cd commands in bash script execute the second command?
I have written a bash script which creates a series of directories and clones a project to selected directories.
For that, I need to cd to each directory (project 1 and project 2), but the script ...
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Backslash at start of file path?
When using the cd command at the terminal, I get a 'no such directory' error if I type something like
cd /directory/whatever/
But when I type something like
cd \directory/whatever/
It works just ...
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Shortcut to `cd` into the 2nd folder in a directory
How to cd into the 2nd folder in a directory?
CONTEXT
I am in a directory with 3 folders.
After executing ls -1 they are ordered like so.
folder1
folder2
folder3
I want to quickly cd into ...
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What can mess up the order of the tab completion
I am experiencing a difference of behavior between my previous OS (Ubuntu Xenial) and my current one (Ubuntu Bionic).
The short story is this:
When using tab completion with cd, the order of the tab ...
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Why my terminal opens a dir without cd today?
I'm on Xubuntu 18.04, and everytime I typed vim in the terminal, It opened vim editor. But today, It opens a directory named vim! what can cause that? I just changed my font size from 14 to 13 ...
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Can not change directory. Completely new at Ubuntu
I am really new at ubuntu and I'm trying to set my directory to a certain file.
Whenever I set it to the folder with all my C++ files it says No such file or directory
I type in cd /home/ and that ...
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How do I prevent 'cd' command from going to home directory?
The thing is that sometimes I type cd by mistake and that take me to the home directory.
e.g. I'm in a directory that have a hidden directory and a visible directory, I quickly press cd+tab and that ...
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How to change directory
When I try to change my working directory to C:\Users\Michell Payano\Desktop\Data Analytics Tools, the result is -bash: cd: too many arguments. I want to know what is wrong.
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Error when using the commands cd.. and cd. in the terminal [duplicate]
I try to use the commands cd.. and cd. in the terminal to move from my current folder to a previous one, and it shows me a message that the command doesn't exist...
What could the problem be? I'm ...
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Can I make USB stick with exfat-fuse case sensitive?
I have a USB stick for which I had to install exfat-fuse, and have mirrored my home diectory onto it for backup purposes with rsync. I have a folder called Documents and I notice I cannot cd documents ...
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Why can't I access this folder?
Why can't I access the folder /website1?
juozas@personal:/opt/lampp/htcdocs$ ls
website1
juozas@personal:/opt/lampp/htcdocs$ cd /website1
bash: cd: /website1: No such file or directory
juozas@...
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What happened when I typed cd // [duplicate]
I accidentally typed cd // instead of cd .. and something weird happened.
The directory // doesn't exist, what's going on here exactly.
root@root:/var/www/html# cd //
root@root://# pwd
//
root@root://...
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Why does `//` only display for first level directories? [duplicate]
For the root directory a // will display in the prompt:
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
rick@alien:~$ cd /
─────────────────────────────────────────────...
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Make array of commands for a script
I have several directories that I need to update, and the steps are the same, except, obviously, that every directory has different names.
I'm new to making scripts. Can I make an array with e.g. $...
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Command cd behavior [duplicate]
Since ubuntu 17.10, my scripts don't work the same way they used to do:
cd a*
would change directory to the first directory beginning with a.
Now, I get this error:
bash: cd: too many arguments
I ...
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How to change into directory owned by root if I have sudo? [duplicate]
I have a deploy user that has sudo privledges.
I can't sudo cd into the directory, but I can list it like:
sudo ls /root
How can I cd into the folder, or is that not possible?
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'Permission denied' when I cd into any folder
Whenever I try cd folder_name/ in bash on any directory it gives this error:
-bash: cd: folder_name/: Permission denied
Execution permissions are given to all folders so that doesn't seem to be the ...
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Setting CDPATH environment variable
"export CDPATH=/usr", like this I want to manipulate CDPATH environment variable. Then I can't be sure it is the same as before when I put "export CDPATH=." on the command line and enter. So, I want ...
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No such file or directory when I try to cd to a directory with two words in the name [duplicate]
I am trying to untar a file and to do so, I have to go to the directory in terminal.
So as in the screenshot above, My downloads are stored in Downloads/Chrome Downloads. But when I type the ...
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cd command is not working
So every time I try to navigate to a directory it gives me this message but when I navigated to my desktops directory it did just that
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cd command is not functioning in Terminal “desktop: No such file or directory” [duplicate]
I have been trying to access a folder to install a program and I keep receiving the following error message:
bash: cd: *: No such file or directory
I then tried accessing the desktop with the ...
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How to edit the highest parent directory of a path while navigating
Noob question: Let's say I'm in:
user@mj:~/var/www/html/mag/something/else/forever$
And I want to be at:
user@mj:/var/www/html/mag/something/else/forever$
Mind the ~
I can achieve that with:
...
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Permission denied from opening directory [duplicate]
I have always wondered how you stop another user from entering a directory. I am in a local installation of GitLab and I see that in my git directory I have a repositories directory. If I try to ls or ...
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How can I have mkdir cd into the newly-created directory? [duplicate]
Frequently, I type these commands in bash:
mkdir something
cd something
I almost never do this:
mkdir something
ls # something in the current directory, not ./something/
And never this:
mkdir ...
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how to install CGAL-4.10?
I've done this:
cd ~/src
wget https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/archive/releases/CGAL-4.10.tar.gz
tar xzf CGAL-4.10.tar.gz
but for this:
cd CGAL-4.10
I got error:
bash: cd: CGAL-4.10: No such file ...
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Ubuntu 17.04 — bash: cd: too many arguments
I just upgraded my Ubuntu 16.04 to 17.04 and found a little problem with cd command.
Let's say that I have two folders: album-01 & album-02
In Ubuntu 16.04, if I do cd album* it will go to the ...
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How to run cd as superuser [duplicate]
I want to cd into a directory from the terminal but access is denied, and typing sudo cd (directory) returns an error about sudo not supporting the cd command. I can use sudo gnome-terminal to launch ...
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`cd` not working if used in bash script [duplicate]
I cannot use cd anymore when using it in a bash script
[~/Downloads] # cat cd-backward
#!/bin/bash
cd ..
[~/Downloads] # ./cd-backward
[~/Downloads] #
I should move to ~ at the last line.
cd ...
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cd to a symlink, is the same to cd to original folder?
I want to create a symbolic link just for convenience (I don't want a type a long path), so if I do something like:
ln -s /foo/bar/baz ~/baz
cd baz
All commands that I run while I'm in ~/baz will ...
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change directory to USB disk
I can not change to a directory that is placed in an USB disk. But I am able to change to the internal disks directories by using the cd command.
When I type df-h to identify the external disk name, ...
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Changing a directory with quotes and spaces.[Linux]
I've been trying to change into this directory all day with no such luck.
.\ \ \ \ ug1y\ \ \ ..\ \ \ \ ''\ \ "\ \ \
The backslashes are just blanks because I used the ls -ab command.
If someone ...
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Which package is the command 'cd' in?
I want to look into the source code behind the command cd, but cd doesn't seem to have its own package so which package is it in?
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cd - further into history [duplicate]
How could I use something similar to cd -, which goes to the previous directory in history, in order to go back even further in directory history? For instance lets say my history is: (1 being current....
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What does cd — do? I used it and I'm now stuck in a directory :(
I entered cd -- into the terminal, just to see what I'd get...
It brought me here: ~ # (I'm root btw).
Just wondering where exactly I am - if I enter ls the output is:
Desktop
ls -a:
. ....
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Bash:cd:No such folder or directory , but it exists
I am new in ubuntu and I am doing a project where i should install the charm crypto library in my android device.In the manual file it says that i should create two folders: $BD and $SCRIPTS.
I ...
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Is there a way to get the trailing '/' to appear when using cd with a symbolic link directory?
I'm using the bash shell and use lots of soft links. One minor but annoying behavior I observe is the fact that I need to hit tab twice to complete the name of a soft link to a directory. e.g.
$ ...
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Start terminal at particular directory
I always need to go at workspace directory using cd, I got bored with this. I want that terminal should be opened at my workspace directory on start, is there any way to do this? Please suggest.
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How can I enter and also rename folders like ''Human (2012)''? [duplicate]
I am playing with FTP via the command line, and I get two problems. I am not able to rename or enter folders like:
dir /home/folder1/Human (2012)
I tried:
cd ~/folder1/Human\ (2012)
Here I receive ...
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changing directory in bash script file [duplicate]
I've spent to much time in the DOS world where cd.. (no space) works.
I tried to do the same in ubuntu by defining a bash file in /usr/local
/bin called "cl.."
its body is
#!/bin/bash
cd ..
I ...
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How can I cd to a directory without writing its name?
Sometimes it’s annoying to access a directory with the folder name. Say I have a directory named a b c d. Apart from using Tab, is there any way to access the folder without typing the name of the ...
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Terminal doesn't go to /home/username/downloads [duplicate]
When I type cd /home, terminal goes there but when I type cd /home/myusername/downloads (or any address) terminal doesn't go there. It says no such file or directory.
Can somebody tell me what ...
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Changing directory [duplicate]
~$ cd downloads
bash: cd: downloads: No such file or directory
~$ ls
Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos
Documents examples.desktop Pictures Templates
~$ cd downloads
bash: cd: ...
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Run sudo command within directory
Possible solutions could be:
Starting interactive session.
sudo -s <<< "cd dir ; command"
or
sudo /bin/bash -c "cd dir ; command"
But I don't have /bin/bash /bin/sh /bin/su or other ...
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No such file or directory when I type “cd desktop” [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.
My problem is that when I try to access my desktop or any folder at my home directory, it always gives me this error
No such file or directory
...
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Why ssh shows Desktop folder as a file?
I am using ssh to accessing a server and I could use scp to copy some files to server Desktop by:
scp T.tar.gz username@serverIP:/home/username/Desktop
but now I cannot access to server Desktop ...
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bash: cd: desktop/android: No such file or directory [duplicate]
I am trying to flash 4.4.3 to my Nexus 5.
When I enter this
cd desktop/android
I get this:
bash: cd: desktop/android: No such file or directory
I am looking right at the folder on my desktop ...
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How can I 'cd' into directory from folder in desktop gui view?
Is there a way to open up a terminal from a folder location in a desktop folder?
This functionality would be the same as 'cdto' in OS X:
https://github.com/jbtule/cdto/releases/tag/2_6_0
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Shell script to function on subfolders
I want to write a simple shell script that will go into all the sub-folders in a directory, and organise the files in the sub-folders into new directories. Basically in terminal it would look like:
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cd: /Home: No such file or directory [duplicate]
I saw loads of posts with similar issues; I've looked at the solutions with no luck so far.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop, installed in partition sda5, mounted as /. The main part of the disk is ...
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sudo cannot do cd [duplicate]
I found the strangest thing
sudo cd $pwd
sudo: cd: command not found
I am able to cd as a normal user.It seems that PATH is not set properly for su.
How do I fix that?
