How to use file protocol to access a directory on local system?

Question

like /usr/local?

I tried file:///usr/local but failed

[root@www2 robot]# cd file:///usr/local
-bash: cd: file:///usr/local: No          


        

Answer 1

The file: protocol only exists in web browsers. Try it in Firefox, it should work. To do it in a shell, just use

cd /usr/local/

Don't use file:. It's the same reason why you can't

cat http://www.google.com

Which would be awesome (but you have to use something like wget or curl).