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#COMMAND LINE FOR MAC CHANGE DIRECTORY HOW TO#

The backslash character in the example above represents a folder (directory) so that this command has told the Command Prompt to move down into the Documents subdirectory and continue into the Letters subdirectory.

Type CD Documents\Letters and press Enter.

Note: The Command Prompt does not care if you use capital or lower case letters.Ĭhange to the Letters directory in 1 step Since these two are both subdirectories below the path of the current directory (C:\User\Name) you can use the CD command to change directories in one of two ways.Ĭhange to the Letters directory in 2 steps If you plan to run a number of commands involving files in another directory, you will either need to enter the path to this other directory whenever referring to the files in it or you will need to change directories in the command prompt window.įor example, let us say that you will be working with files saved in a directory named Letters which was created in the Documents directory. Please look at the picture below to see that, in this case, the command prompt is in the Name subdirectory, which is inside the Users directory, which is on the C drive.

The CD command is used to change directories, which means it moves the command prompt into a different folder. Some of this information is not obvious when you view the help text available in the Command Prompt.

#COMMAND LINE FOR MAC CHANGE DIRECTORY HOW TO#

The intent of this article is to give a more complete explanation of how to use the CD command. The CD command has already been mentioned in previous articles: Command line syntax, Displaying help for commands, and Delimiters, spaces, and special characters. For specific help with the add-on, please see the information in WinZip Command Line Add-on Help located in the WinZip program group. It is intended for users who are not experienced with command line use.

This article contains basic information to help with the use of the WinZip Command Line Support Add-on.

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