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<pre>ls</pre>
This lists all the files in your home directory.
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<pre>pwd</pre>
This displays the full directory path to your current directory, which is your home directory.
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<pre>cd /</pre>
This will change you into the <code>/</code> root directory.
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<pre>ls</pre>
This lists the contents of the <code>/</code> root directory.
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<pre>cd Users</pre>
This will change you into the <code>Users</code> subdirectory of the <code>/</code> root directory.
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<pre>ls</pre>
You should see a list of all the files in <code>/Users</code>, including the directory for your username -- your home directory.
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<pre>pwd</pre>
This displays the full directory path to your current directory, <code>/Users</code>.
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<pre>cd ..</pre>
<code>..</code> means "parent directory", so this command moved you up to the parent directory. You were in <code>/Users</code>, so now you are in <code>/</code>, the root directory.
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<pre>ls</pre>
This lists the contents of the root directory, confirming where you are.
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* You can use Tab to auto-complete directory and file names. So from inside the root directory, if you type <code>cd U</code> and hit Tab, the command prompt will auto-complete the directory name as much as it can.
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