Macos – How to use Terminal to navigate into a desktop shortcut or folder in applications

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I'm on a Mac and watching a tutorial on setting up Git.

I'm in the terminal and currently on the Desktop. I can us ls to list all the items on my desktop, and cd into any of the folders on my Desktop, but I can't get into my localhost shortcut (which leads to the MAMP folder in applications where all my websites are).

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1) How do you navigate into a shortcut, or

2) How do you navigate into the Main Mac folder (I can't see or cd into it from the terminal)

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In order to get to the Main Mac folder, you can do cd /

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Here is defined an alias solr which will cd to the named directory-:

alias solr='cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/whoat/solr/whoat'

Note the use of single quotes - double quotes will cause the cd to go to to the home directory.

I sometimes prefer to add a pwd to the alias as a check and reminder of what the current working directory is-:

alias solr='cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/whoat/solr/whoat;pwd'

Ideally you would put this alias in your .bash_profile in your home directory. You can use a text editor such as TextEdit or vim to add the alias command to .bash_profile. Then to load the new alias into your shell type-:

source .bash_profile

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