Paths

A path is simply the list of directories you need to go through to get to a folder or file. When chained together, we can follow them to our destination.

In unix based operating systems (Mac/Linux), directories in a path are joined by a /.

The previous example showed my current directory as /Users/kelseyhawley. To get to the that folder, I would need to open Users, then kelseyhawley.

Before moving forward, we're going to cover some of the more common vocabulary used to describe paths.