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Rosemary Morrow
2,431 PointsQuiz question from Introduction to the Terminal
I am stumped on this fill in the blank(s) question...am I missing something very simple?
We're in the macpan subdirectory within the games directory. Fill in the blanks to complete a command to change up to the games parent directory.
treehouse:~/workspace/games/macpan$ pwd /home/treehouse/workspace/games/macpan treehouse:~/workspace/games/macpan$ ___ ___
4 Answers
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsThe command to change directory is "cd". And the special symbol that stands for any directory's parent directory is two periods together ("..").
Brenda Cardona
8,395 Pointsfor that particular question is ''cd' and then ''games".
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsYou're thinking of one of the other questions, that's not the answer for this one.
Brenda Cardona
8,395 PointsYou are correct... this is the right answer
We're in the macpan subdirectory within the games directory. Fill in the blanks to complete a command to change up to the games parent directory.
treehouse:~/workspace/games/macpan$ pwd
/home/treehouse/workspace/games/macpan
treehouse:~/workspace/games/macpan$ cd ..
cd and .. (two dots)
Demarcus Brooks
4,060 PointsThis is the correct answer.
cd and games are the two correct answers.
Ibrahim Abouzeid
8,389 Pointscd ~/
Trinity Shelly
2,928 Pointsaye thank you!
Molly Zalman
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 12,522 PointsI've tried every variation of what people have said in this but still not getting it. Does anyone know the answer?