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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Entering directories structured above user. Post 60952 by Neo on Tuesday 25th of January 2005 11:29:02 PM

01-26-2005

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Dear Frank,

You can go to the root directory of your entire filesystem with this command:

cd /

Then, simply type a command such as

ls -l

and you will see the first level of directories under the root of your filesystem.

Then, simply "cd" into one of the directories you see, for example:

cd /etc

Neo

PS, for example:

Code:

www# cd /
www# ls -l
total 117
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  6  2003 archives/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     bin          4096 Jan 18  2004 bin/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 Aug 24  2003 boot/
drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root         4096 Aug 25  2003 database/
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root        45056 Nov 24 21:26 dev/
drwxr-xr-x   37 root     root         4096 Jan 23 22:57 etc/
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     users        4096 Jan 23 22:57 home/
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Jan  1  2003 lib/
drwx------    2 root     root        16384 Jan  1  2003 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Mar 16  2002 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 May 19  2002 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x   69 root     root            0 Nov 24 16:26 proc/
drwx--x---    9 root     root         4096 Jan 24 18:32 root/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     bin          4096 Jun  1  2002 sbin/
drwxrwxrwt    4 mysql    users        4096 Jan 25 23:30 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root         4096 Dec  4 18:04 usr/
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Dec 20 00:04 usr2/
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 Nov 24 22:56 var/
www# cd etc
www# pwd
/etc
www#

Neo

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xdg-user-dirs-update

XDG-USER-DIRS-UPD(1)						   User Commands					      XDG-USER-DIRS-UPD(1)

NAME

       xdg-user-dirs-update - Update XDG user dir configuration

SYNOPSIS

       xdg-user-dirs-update [OPTION...] [--set NAME PATH...]

DESCRIPTION

       xdg-user-dirs-update updates the current state of the users user-dirs.dir. If none existed before then one is created based on the system
       default values, or falling back to the old non-translated filenames if such directories exists. The list of old directories used are:
       ~/Desktop, ~/Templates and ~/Public.

       If an old configuration exists it is updated with any new default directories. Additionally, any configured directories that point to
       non-existing locations are reset by pointing then to the users home directory. This typically happens when the users removed the directory,
       so they likely don't want to use it anymore.

       On the first run a user-dirs.locale file is created containing the locale that was used for the translation. This is used later by gui
       tools like xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update to detect if the locale was changed, letting you to migrate from the old names.

       xdg-user-dirs-update is normally run automatically at the start of a user session to update the XDG user dirs according to the users
       locale.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       --help
	   Print help output and exit.

       --force
	   Update existing user-dirs.dir, but force a full reset. This means: Don't reset nonexisting directories to HOME, rather recreate the
	   directory. Never use backwards compatible non-translated names. Always recreate user-dirs.locale.

       --dummy-output PATH
	   Write the configuration to PATH instead of the default configuration file. Also, no directories are created.

       --set NAME PATH
	   Sets the XDG user dir with the given name.

	   NAME should be one of the following:
	       DESKTOP
	       DOWNLOAD
	       TEMPLATES
	       PUBLICSHARE
	       DOCUMENTS
	       MUSIC
	       PICTURES
	       VIDEOS

	   PATH must be an absolute path, e.g.	$HOME/Some/Directory.

FILES

       The XDG user dirs configuration is stored in the user-dirs.dir file in the location pointed to by the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable.

ENVIRONMENT

       The XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable determines where the user-dirs.dirs file is located.

SEE ALSO

       xdg-user-dir(1), user-dirs.dirs(5), user-dirs.defaults(5), user-dirs.conf(5).

XDG
															      XDG-USER-DIRS-UPD(1)