How to cd to desktop????

**pcvchriskmg** · August 26th, 2011

This has been driving me crazy for ten minutes.

On the cli, I am at chris@chris-studio-1737 (studio-1737 is the name of my computer).

I need to access the desktop via the cd command.

I have tried:

cd /desktop
cd /home/desktop
cd home/chris/desktop
cd /chris/desktop
cd desktop

And some other combinations.

I get the following response:

bash: cd: home/chris/desktop: Not a directory

Can anyone explain to me what is going on, please?

Thanks,
Chris

**nothingspecial** · August 26th, 2011

Capital D

~ is shorthand for your $HOME

so

Code:

cd ~/Desktop

**pcvchriskmg** · August 26th, 2011

Originally Posted by nothingspecial

Capital D

~ is shorthand for your $HOME

so

Code:

cd ~/Desktop

all directory names are case-sensitive, then?

Chris

**whatthefunk** · August 26th, 2011

Full path would be:
/home/chris/Desktop

**whatthefunk** · August 26th, 2011

Originally Posted by pcvchriskmg

all directory names are case-sensitive, then?

Chris

Yes they are. From your home directory, you can do the following to see all the directories:

Code:

ls

**pcvchriskmg** · August 26th, 2011

OK,thanks guys.

Consider this this thread CLOSED.

**nothingspecial** · August 26th, 2011

Everything you type into the shell is case sensetive........

........ unless you are using something like grep and use the ignore case option (but don't worry about that right now).