I can do the question I need to do if I cd into the right directory, but our prof wants us to be able to do it from anywhere.
I can do ls | grep *pattern* and it works from the directory I’m in, but how do I do it anywhere by specifying the path?
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ls /path/to/directory | grep *pattern*should work.