You learn something new everyday. After tears of using Ubuntu since Dapper Drake I never knew this. I have always used cd ~ to return to the home directory.
Thanks for the insight. (back to my Rails installation now...) On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 22:42:36 UTC+10, walt wrote: > > Hi McHenry & Diego > > > according to (http://www.linfo.org/cd.html) cd on its own does alternate > between two directories like > > ~ $ cd /tmp > /tmp $ cd > ~ $ cd > /tmp $ > > and so on …. > > However! I’ve tested it on Mac and Fedora 20 — and the shell (Bash on > Fedora) returns the user to the $HOME in both environments (hmmm) > > Good spot, Diego! > > Cheers, > Walther > > > > > Den 05/08/2014 kl. 14.08 skrev McHenry <he...@incred.com.au <javascript:> > >: > > Hi Diego. The command "cd ~" returns the user to their home directory > however "cd" alone does nothing as far as I know. > > On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 22:02:33 UTC+10, Diego Dillenburg Bueno wrote: >> >> In case you asked about the meaning of the command being used there, >> instead of what it does, it might be, correct me if I'm wrong, just to make >> sure you're in your home directory, just to make it is easier to follow. >> >> Regards, >> Diego Dillenburg Bueno >> >> >> 2014-08-05 8:52 GMT-03:00 Walther Diechmann <wal...@diechmann.net>: >> >>> Hi McHenry, >>> >>> from your question I gather that you should perhaps start by going >>> through one/two articles on the basic Linux commands - just to keep you >>> a-float ;) >>> >>> ls list directory >>> cd change directory >>> sudo execute som command as another user (superuser unless otherwise >>> specified) >>> pushd cd and remember where you were at >>> popd cd to the remembered directory prior to the pushed one >>> >>> cheers >>> Walther >>> >>> Den 05/08/2014 kl. 13.43 skrev McHenry <he...@incred.com.au>: >>> >>> I am using the following guide: >>> https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/14.04 >>> >>> Under the heading "Using rbenv" the first line instruction is "cd" >>> >>> What is the purpose of this command? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/e93f0cf6-e201-4038-a6e8-19ce9c96b4e6%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/e93f0cf6-e201-4038-a6e8-19ce9c96b4e6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/BDE7C77B-E089-4FE9-B146-A1642EEE0913%40diechmann.net >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/BDE7C77B-E089-4FE9-B146-A1642EEE0913%40diechmann.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/e74c8ccb-3da0-40ed-8e70-684cbeeaeabf%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/e74c8ccb-3da0-40ed-8e70-684cbeeaeabf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/4d77784e-cae8-4ebe-90b1-1f4b4ca110ca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
