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How to Find a Directory in Linux. Searching for a directory is possible by passing the d to the -type parameter in the find command. In the above screenshot, were finding a directory named zip from our current directory. Similarly the -type option accepts other parameter options to simplify our finding process.

To display the full pathname of the present working directory, use the pwd command. To navigate to a subdirectory relative to your current working directory, use the cd command followed by the target directory. Most Linux distributions offer an auto-complete function.

Basic Linux Commands pwd (Print Working Directory) The pwd command is your GPS in the Linux file system. ls (List Files and Directories) cd (Change Directory) mkdir (Make Directory) touch (Create Empty File) rm (Remove Files and Directories)

To navigate up one directory level, use cd .. To navigate to the previous directory (or back), use cd - To navigate through multiple levels of directory at once, specify the full directory path that you want to go to. For example, use, cd /var/ to go directly to the / subdirectory of /var/.

Use the ls command to display the contents of a directory. The ls command writes to standard output the contents of each specified Directory or the name of each specified File, along with any other information you ask for with the flags.

To open a directory on a computer with a graphical interface, you double-click on a folder. It opens, and you are now in that folder. To open a directory in a terminal, you use the cd command to change your current directory. This essentially opens that folder and places you in it.

To open all files inside a folder in Linux, you can use a wildcard * in combination with a text editor command line interface. For example, if you want to open all text files in a folder with the nano text editor, you can use the following command in the terminal: nano *txt.

You could try and go to a virtual console terminal with the command cntl+alt+F2, where F2 could be F3, F4 etc. To return to the GUI, it may be alt+F1, or cntl+alt+F1, or using F7 instead of F1, as mentioned in post #2.