New to forums and ubuntu : ( Im trying to learn shell.. what am I doing wrong

[james_4]

lulwat@lulwat:~$ pwd
/home/lulwat
lulwat@lulwat:~$ cd ..
lulwat@lulwat:/home$ cd ~
lulwat@lulwat:~$ ls
Desktop Downloads Link to WIN TO NIX NIX TO WIN Pictures Templates
Documents examples.desktop Music Public Videos
lolwat@lulwat:~$ cd ~/downloads
bash: cd: /home/lulwat/downloads: No such file or directory
lolwat@lulwat:~$ cd ~/downloads/
bash: cd: /home/lulwat/downloads/: No such file or directory
lulwat@lulwat:~$


I’m trying to learn how to get around in shell.. right now I'm having issues navigating to the downloads folder..
I’m just trying out what I just learned on codecademy

[howefield]

Downloads should be capitalised, you do not have a "downloads" folder.

Look at the result of your ls command..

[james_4]

wow.... thanks. Never would have thought its case sensitive..

[Lars Noodén]

There's also tab completion, if you haven't found that yet. Start typing as normal and then press tab when you what you have so far is unique. e.g.

cd ~/Doc<tab>
cd ~/Dow<tab>

You get used to it very quickly and it saves on typing.

[ajgreeny]

Tab completion will also overcome another of the problems that you may come across with files and folders with spaces in their names.

For these files you have to use an escape character in terminal, ie either quotation marks around the full pathway, or a backslash before the space, so a folder called rock music will have to be typed as rock\ music or "rock music". Type rock then hit tab and the terminal will fill in the rest for you and escape the space for you with a backslash; if there is more than one match tab x2 will show all the matching options.