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---
layout: page
category-page: fs
category-title: FileSystem
tags: absolute relative path
author: Marwan Announ
title: Relative paths
---
Relative path is defined as path related to the present working directory(pwd).<br>
Suppose I am located in /home/user and I want to change directory to /home/user/Documents.<br>
I can use relative path concept to change directory to Documents.
<pre>
pwd
/home/user
cd Documents
pwd
/home/user/Documents
</pre>
If you observe, there is a little bit difference between absolute and relative paths:
in relative paths there is no "/" at the very beginning.<br>
Meanwhile in an absolute path you have to write "/", in this case it'd be "/home/user/Documents".