If your user name is tom it would be /home/tom or if your user name is Mary it would be /home/Mary
All you need is the PWD(Print Working Directory) command, this will list your current directory absolute path All you need is the PWD(Print Working Directory) command, this will list your current directory absolute path
"cd" with no directory takes you to your home (login) directory. In a path, ~ (tilde) means your home directory, ~usr means the home directory of user usr. For example, "cp ~/foo ~john" copies file foo from your home directory to john's.
Another name for current path is "present working directory" (PWD). It refers to the directory where a user is currently located within the file system.
There are several ways to do this. The easiest way is just to type the command 'CD', which automatically puts you in your home directory. Other ways: CD $HOME CD ~ CD ~login-id (use your login-id here) If you know the absolute path name, just use it with the 'CD' command: CD /home/staff/guy1
If it's already in your PATH variable, then simply the name of the executable would do. If not, then use the full path of the executable or navigate to the directory of the executable and then ./executable where "executable" is the name of the executable.
The command 'pwd' will identify the full path of the present working directory.
The HOME environment variable has this information.
The relative path to an image is the path that describes the location of the image file in relation to the current directory or file. It does not include the full directory structure from the root but instead provides a way to access the file based on the current working directory. For example, if the image is located in a folder named "images" within the current directory, the relative path would be "images/image.jpg".
Absolute path: Path from root directory (it is the same place, wherever the current path is) Relative path: Relative to the current path.
scp 1@bravo:2 3 where 1 is username which is allowed to read copied file on bravo; 2 is the full path on bravo to the copied file (relative path defaults to user's home directory on bravo); 3 is the path on local system to store the copied file (or, a dot, to have it stored into current directory, preserving the name of copied file).
It is the path as relative to the topmost directory, /. For example, /usr/bin is absolute, but ../bin is relative (Means "the directory 'bin' in the parent of the current directory.")
A basename is a file name without any path or directory information.