Editing Path (computing) (section)

===Unix===
The following examples are for typical, Unix-based file systems:

Given the working directory is {{code|/home/mark/}} and it contains subdirectory {{code|bobapples}}, relative paths to the subdirectory include {{code|./bobapples}} and {{code|bobapples}}, and the absolute path is {{code|/home/mark/bobapples}}. A command to change the working directory to the subdirectory:

<syntaxhighlight lang="console>
$ cd bobapples
</syntaxhighlight>

If the working directory was {{code|/home/jo}}, then the relative path {{code|../mark/bobapples}} specifies the subdirectory. The double dots {{code|..}} indicates a move up the directory hierarchy one level to {{code|/home}}, the rest indicates moving down to {{code|mark}} and then {{code|boapples}}.