Editing MacOS terminal navigation (section)

===Practice using <code>ls</code>, <code>pwd</code>, and <code>cd</code>===
(that's a letter l in "ls", not the number 1)

Type each of these commands and hit enter:

<pre>ls</pre>
This lists all the files in your current directory.

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<pre>pwd</pre>
This displays the full directory path to your current directory. (It's stands for "print working 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. The directory for your username (e.g. <tt>/Users/Jessica</tt> is often called 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.

If you want to get back to your home directory, you can do:

<pre>cd Users</pre>

<pre>cd YOURNAME</pre>

where YOURNAME is the name of your User directory.

One helpful tip is that you can start typing a directory, then hit the <code>TAB</code> key and the terminal will autocomplete it.