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Unix commands to make directory, change directory, show path

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· Create a directory called class.
· Move into that directory.
· Create a text file that contains what is your absolute path, and call it paths.txt

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In this solution I describe the UNIX commands to make a directory, change to a directory, and write the current directory path to a file.

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To create a directory you use the "mkdir" command. The argument to mkdir is the name of the directory you want to make. Here is an example:

prompt: mkdir ...

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