Where am I?

In a text-based environment, it is very important to know where you are, so how can we find out where we are in a text-based system? Well, there is a nice and simple command that will print the working directory, type pwd.

kgoebber@bergeron:~> pwd

You should see something similar to /home/kgoebber where kgoebber is your user name. This is your home directory, where you will start every terminal session. So now that we know where we are, we need to know what is in this directory.