Terminal question

[nasman]

I'm a Mac newb.
When I'm logged in as my user, I can go into Finder and see everything under "Macintosh-HD" and my user area. When I open a terminal, I'm in my user's area and I can't get to directories/files which are under "Macintosh-HD". I need to be able to get to some files under "Macintosh-HD" from within the terminal but I can't figure out how to do this.
My user has Admin privs and I figured there should be a way to get to these directories/files from within the terminal.
Thanks for any help

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Change directory.

If you want to change directory to the root of the hard drive, type:

cd /

 

[artov]

The disk images you see on the desktop are under directory /Volumes, so type

 cd /Volumes

if you like to see the disks. But, since most files are from the Macintosh-HD,

 cd /

is more likely what you are after.

 

[nasman]

Thanks...got it!

 

[g/re/p]

To veiw the contents of your root directory, type ls -la at the prompt.

 

[Giaguara]

Hi nasman,
I think you'll like some of these to read and to bookmark:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~benhdj/Mac/unix.html
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/20/terminal1.html (it's for Tiger but works the same)
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/14/terminal2.html
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/05/terminal3.html
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/09/terminal4.html
Those will get you started