CyberStars

Recap: Navigation

Time to put the first chapter together. You now have three trusty tools for moving around a Linux system:

  • pwd: tells you where you are
  • ls: tells you what is around you
  • cd: moves you to a new directory

None of these change or delete anything, so you can explore freely. The golden habit of every cadet:

pwd    # confirm where you are
ls     # look at what is here
cd somewhere   # move on

Repeat that loop and you will never get lost. If you ever do, cd ~ brings you straight home.

Reading what ls shows you

Remember ls -l puts a d in front of directories and a - in front of files. Use it whenever you need to know which names you can cd into.

Mission: The Hidden Vault

Station intelligence reports a hidden vault somewhere deep in the station directory. Your job is to navigate the folder structure and find it. Rumor has it the vault is invisible to a basic ls.

  1. Look at what is in your home directory.
  2. Move into the station folder.
  3. From there, move into the archive folder.
  4. Inside archive, a hidden directory is waiting. Reveal the hidden entries, then move into it.

Expected result

Your current location is /home/student/station/archive/.vault. You found the vault.