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    I'm told to go to /home/jbander/Downloads, so how do I do that, I assume you do it in terminal but what do you do next, I can get to home but thats it. How do I go from one directory or file or whatever they are, to another and once I'm there what do I do to see what is in the download file. One more question if I want to change it from e.g. cow to e.g. duck how would I do that(they are just arbitrary names) how do I get rid of cow and how do I put duck in it's place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jbander View Post
    I'm told to go to /home/jbander/Downloads, so how do I do that, I assume you do it in terminal but what do you do next, I can get to home but thats it. How do I go from one directory or file or whatever they are, to another and once I'm there what do I do to see what is in the download file. One more question if I want to change it from e.g. cow to e.g. duck how would I do that(they are just arbitrary names) how do I get rid of cow and how do I put duck in it's place.
    From the terminal you can change directory:

    Code:
    cd /home/jbander/Downloads
    To rename files, you can use the move command:

    Code:
    mv /home/jbander/cow /home/jbander/duck
    Some quick and easy command line lessons can be found here:

    LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line
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    In addition to what ozar has suggested, Linux is case and space sensitive too. Make sure to type correct case.
    Code:
    cd /home/jbander/Downloads
ls
    ~ sign represents Home folder i.e., /home/<user_id>.
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    cd  /home/jbander/Downloads
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cd ~/Downloads
    will do the same, Change directory to Downloads folder.
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    jbander, once you've completed the lessons at the link posted above, here's another good tutorial that will give you some other handy things worth knowing:

    UNIX / Linux Tutorial for Beginners
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    Quote Originally Posted by ozar View Post
    jbander, once you've completed the lessons at the link posted above, here's another good tutorial that will give you some other handy things worth knowing:

    UNIX / Linux Tutorial for Beginners
    That's a really good tutorial for beginners. Bookmarked !
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