Newbie question - CD cmd not working - what am I doing wrong?

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I am in my home folder, I can list the folders their and can see 'Documents' folder. But when I issue CD command - it says no such folder or directory!

Please copy and paste those texts – George Udosen Oct 31 '19 at 17:51 — George Udosen, Oct 31 '19 at 17:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '19 at 17:51

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Ubuntu is Case Sensitive.

cd Documents would work.

cd documents failed because there is no directory documents.

answered Oct 31 '19 at 17:51

K7AAY

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '19 at 17:54

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There is one error in your command and a gotcha.

Linux is a case sensitive OS cd documents referees to different directory than cd Documents.

By omitting the full path /home/mordred/Documents this path is evaluated as a relative path, if the command is issued from a different working directory it would fail.

answered Oct 31 '19 at 17:54

J. Starnes

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:) Case sensitive ://) – Mordred36 Oct 31 '19 at 18:00
Thank you soo much! – Mordred36 Oct 31 '19 at 18:00

Newbie question - CD cmd not working - what am I doing wrong?

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