Novice Level

Using Absolute and Relative Paths

15 minutes

2 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

In this hands-on lab, we will practice using absolute and relative paths. Understanding the difference between absolute and relative paths is a critical component to working with files and directories in Linux.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Use Absolute Paths to Move the File

Use cat and redirection to place the contents of the file Practice/Test/free into a new file named value.txt in your home directory.
```
cat /home/cloud_user/Practice/Test/free > /home/cloud_user/value.txt
```

Use Relative Paths to Move the File

Change to the /usr/share directory.
```
cd /usr/share
```
Use cat and redirection to place the contents of the file Practice/Test/sys/fs/xfs/stats/stats into the newly created file value.txt in your home directory.
```
cat ../../home/cloud_user/Practice/Test/sys/fs/xfs/stats/stats >> ../../home/cloud_user/value.txt
```

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Additional Resources

Your supervisor has asked you to demonstrate your expertise in using absolute and relative paths by executing a couple of scenarios.

From your home directory:

Use cat and redirection to place the contents of the file Practice/Test/free into a new file named value.txt in your home directory using only absolute paths.

cat [PATH_TO_FILE] > [PATH_TO_HOME]/value.txt

From the /usr/share directory:

Use cat and redirection to place the contents of the file Practice/Test/sys/fs/xfs/stats/stats into the newly created file value.txt in your home directory using only relative paths.

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Using Absolute and Relative Paths

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