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Changing The Current Working Directory
To change your working directory (where we are standing in our tree-shaped maze) we use the cd command. To do this, type cd followed by the pathname of the desired work- ing directory. A pathname is the route we take along the branches of the tree to get to the directory we want. Pathnames can be specified in one of two different ways; as absolute pathnames or as relative pathnames. Let's deal with absolute pathnames first.