Hi Tim, you can use '..' to tell cd to go one folder up from where you are currently in the folder hierarchy.
So if you are at /home/tim/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5 , then $ cd .. will put you into folder4 $ cd ../.. will put you into folder3 $ cd ../../.. will put you into folder2 $ cd ../../../.. will put you into folder1 If you are expecting to want to go back to folder5, you might find 'pushd' and popd' useful. pushd ../../.. will take you to folder2 but will also remember folder5 as your prevoius folder on a 'stack' and you can later, from folder2, say 'popd' to 'pop' the top folder from your stack so you will go back to folder5. Hope that helps, Victor -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
