I know this is a stupid question, but I am a Unix novice.  I need some help with simple navigation in Unraid as I am unfamiliar with this OS.  How do I move from the root@Tower:~# to a different place?

 

Specifically, I am trying to use the SNAP application to migrate data from a non Unraid drive into the array.  A requirement of the application, however, is that I move from root@Tower:~# to root@Tower:/boot/config/snap# ? 

 

What commands would let me do that?

And then how do I get back to the main prompt of root@Tower:~#  ?

it's really similar to dos, some of the commands are different, but it's not too bad.

 

this will get you to the root of everything (like cd\ in Win/Dos)

cd /

 

ls will show you all the files and folders in your current directory (similar to dir in Win/Dos)

if you just wanted to jump straight to boot/config/snap# you could type

cd /boot/config/snap#

 

as you're typing stuff you can hit the Tab key and it'll auto fill the rest of words for you if you're going to a directory with a long name, this is a lot better than having to type it all out - and remember Linux is case sensitive.

 

hope that helps some.