One of the reasons (of many) I am such a shit college student is my almost overwhelming desire to treat simple questions as a chance to be dick about it.
In Linux, list 3 ways to return to your home directory from anywhere in the file system.
Oh, OK. Well, there's cd, and cd ~, and cd $HOME, and cd /home/mike, and cd /home/./../home/./mike/../../home/./../home/mike, and there's.......
Gets me every time.
Mike Stone
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2026-09-30 03:45:47 UTC
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