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Rasel Khan
Asked: 2015-02-06 06:14:44 +0800 CST

How i can change root to user directory?

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I want to change root directory back to home directory, how can I achieve this?

What I have now:

root@raselkhan:~# pwd
/root

What I had before:

khan@raselkhan:~# pwd
/khan/home
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2 Answers

  1. If I understand you correctly, you can always:

    exit

    And then pwd again.

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  2. In your first portion root@raselkhan:~# pwd, the username is root and the directory you are currently in is ~ i.e. home directory. As the user is root and the home directory of root is /root, pwd command rightly showing the print working directory as /root.

    Now in your second portion khan@raselkhan:~# pwd, the username is khan and the current directory is ~ which again means the home directory of the user. As the user in this case is khan so the pwd will show /home/khan (i think you have mistakenly typed /khan/home).

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