


Paths take two forms: absolute paths and relative paths. Paths look similar in some ways to website sub-directories, and follow the structure of your folders. To do so, you build something called a path. You can use Terminal to get direct access to your files without using the Finder. When writing commands and paths in Terminal, almost everything is case sensitive: This means that you need to remember to properly capitalize "Dock" when referring to the Dock, or OS X won't understand your command.

Unless you're executing a command that requires the display of text in Terminal, you won't have any indicator that what you've done has been successful you'll just get a new line with your user name on it once the command is finished processing.
