From 49b15a5987e5f68e2a75c2f2962e82ced13ad5b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kate Taylor <156236911+TaylorKT@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:29:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added definitions of . and .. We added a text description of . and .. before using .. with cd --- episodes/02-the-filesystem.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/episodes/02-the-filesystem.md b/episodes/02-the-filesystem.md index 401da447..ee9179e1 100644 --- a/episodes/02-the-filesystem.md +++ b/episodes/02-the-filesystem.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Your computer looked for a directory or file called `shell_data` within the directory you were already in. It didn't know you wanted to look at a directory level above the one you were located in. -We have a special command to tell the computer to move us back or up one directory level. +We have two special directory names `.` and `..`; `.` refers to the current directory you are in and `..` refers to the directory one level above the current directory. We can use `..` with `cd` to move up one directory level. ```bash $ cd ..