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Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen;Ossama Othman
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and it means the same thing.

A final handy tip: The tilde ~ is equivalent to your home directory. So
typing cd ~ is the same as typing cd with no arguments. Also, you can type
things like cd ~/practice/mysubdirectory to change to the directory
/home/yourname/practice/mysubdirectory. In a similar way, ~myuser is
equivalent to the home directory of the user ``myuser,'' which is probably
something like /home/myuser; so ~myuser/docs/debian.ps is equivalent to
/home/myuser/doc/debian.ps.

Here are some more file commands to try out, now that you know about
relative filenames. cd to your home directory before you begin.

mkdir practice
In your home directory, make a directory called practice. You'll use this
directory to try out some other commands. You might type ls to verify that
your new directory exists.

cd practice
Changes the directory to practice.

mkdir mysubdirectory
Creates a subdirectory of practice.

cp /etc/profile .
cp is short for ``copy.'' /etc/profile is just a random file on your
system, don't worry about what it is for now. We've copied it to . (recall
that . just means ``the directory I'm in now,'' or the current working
directory). So this creates a copy of /etc/profile and puts it in your
practice directory. Try typing ls to verify that there's indeed a file
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