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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: barney on July 12, 2009, 04:12:25 AM

Title: Question about AmigaSHell.
Post by: barney on July 12, 2009, 04:12:25 AM

When using the Amiga shell program, how do I navigate up to the parent directory.  I know if I type ":", then it takes me to the top, but how do I go up just one level?

Barney

Title: Re: Question about AmigaSHell.
Post by: Thomas on July 12, 2009, 07:35:43 AM

Just use "/" instead of ":".

Title: Re: Question about AmigaSHell.
Post by: ChaosLord on July 12, 2009, 10:59:21 AM

And if you want to go up exactly 2 levels you can type: //
or you can go up 3 levels with: ///
 Can you guess what //// does? :D  
You can use / at anytime in a pathname.  Sometimes I do things like ///Music/Mods/  
One trailing slash on the end doesn't really do anything so I end up inside my mods dir.

Title: Re: Question about AmigaSHell.
Post by: Karlos on July 12, 2009, 11:01:40 AM

Don't forget ':' to jump straight to the root directory.

Also, don't forget the pcd script, which allows you to return to the previous directory you were in regardless of it's relation to the one you are now in (provided you went there using pcd in the first place).