When I launch a new Terminal window, it starts me in ‘Macintosh HD/Users/MyName’. How can I back out of my user directory, back up to the top level?
When I launch a new Terminal window, it starts me in ‘Macintosh HD/Users/MyName’. How
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When I launch a new Terminal window, it starts me in ‘Macintosh HD/Users/MyName’. How can I back out of my user directory, back up to the top level?
cd ..will back the directory up by one. If you want to reach a folder in the parent directory, you can do something likecd ../foldername. You can use the “..” trick as many times as you want to back up through multiple parent directories. For example,cd ../../Applicationswould take you toMacintosh HD/Applications