For example, in order to change the directory to the Program Files we should use "Program Files" like below. In order to prevent errors, we can use a double quote for the directory name with spaces or for the whole path like below. While navigating between directories with spaces we have to take care of the directory name. > cd Users\ismail\Desktop Change To Directory Name with Spacesĭirectory names can be upper case, lower case, and provide some special characters like space. In this example, we will change to the Users, ismail, Desktop. We can also specify multiple directories in a single cd command. In the previous example, we have changed the directories one by one with multiple cd commands. If we do not type any directory name all currently existing directories will be enumerated alphabetically. For example, if we typed U and press TAB the directories like User, Users, Use will be listed.
The completion will be done according to the provided directory name. If we do not know the whole directory name or it is too long to type we can use TAB key to list available directories.
MS-DOS provides tab shortcuts to complete directory. > cd /?Ĭhange Directory Using Tab To Complete Directory Name We can print help information with /? like below. are used to specify the path.Īs cd is a very simple command it has also very little helpful information for complete usage. PATH is the most important part where the directory names.DRIVE is optional and specifies the drive or partition like C:, D: we can also use lowercase like c:, d.We can also use chdir command like cdcommand which is the short form of chdir. There is also a drive part but it is used very rarely and optionally. cd Command SyntaxĬd command has very simple syntax where we provide the path. In this tutorial, we will learn all of them. It may seem very basic and easy but a changing directory with the cd command provides a lot of different use cases like the change to a parent directory, change the drive, change to the root directory. We can change the current working directory with the cd command. One of the most basic operations for the command line is changing the directory. Cmd or cmd.exe or MS-DOS is a command-line tool used in Windows operating systems.
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