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You can create other directories using the md
command. The new directory is a subdirectory of
the directory you are in when you create the direc-
tory. For instance, if you created a subdirectory
named Documnts, it would reside in the root direc-
tory, and your disk organization would look like
this:
Root directory
You can now store files in the Documnts subdirec-
tory. If you change your current directory to the
Documnts directory using the cd command, then
make two more subdirectories called Letters and
Invoices, your directory would look like:
Root d i recto ry
1-Docu mnts
( D o c u m n t s
Letters
Invoices
I
I
In each subdirectory you can save files with re-
lated information. For example, save your corre-
spondences in the Letters subdirectory of
Documnts and invoices in the Invoices subdirec-
tory of Documnts.
Your computer uses
a
shorter way of referring to
subdirectories and files. The computer always re-
fers to the root directory as \. Your computer refers
to files and subdirectories of the root directory as
that directory or file's name, preceded by \. In the
above example, we would refer to the Documnts
directory as \Documnts. To refer to the next level of
subdirectory or a file in \Documnts, add a \, then
the name of the file or subdirectory. For example,
your reference is \Documnts\Letters.
There is nothing wrong with storing all your files in
the root directory. Doing so makes it easy to ac-
cess them, because you are always in the same
directory as your files. However, dividing your files
into multiple directories makes it easy to keep your
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