Editing Software Onboarding/Working on the terminal (section)

==Relative paths and the working directory==
It would be inconvenient if we had to refer to the absolute path every time we needed to reference a file. The terminal solves this by introducing the concept of a ''working directory''. The working directory is, unsurprisingly, the directory where you are currently working. Any time a path doesn't explicitly start at the root, it is known as a ''relative path''. Before a relative path is evaluated, the working directory is added to the beginning of it to construct an absolute path. For example, if I open a terminal in the directory "/home/username" I could refer to the previous text file as "Documents/file.txt". Notice the lack of a leading slash indicating this path is a relative path. The working directory and the relative path are added together to produce the same path as the previous absolute path, but with much less typing.