How to open a folder in Terminal

Folks
Sorry, but I'm 'way out of my depth dealing with unix, but I know it's mighty interesting, and I just wish I had time to learn it, but...! Here's my need:
My Trash is so full it won't open just by mouse click! I need to check it before I Empty Trash. What is the command/string I need to open the folder, please?
Anybody help me, please?
Regards
Roy

You can actually, should you desire a more GUI experience, drag-and-drop a folder onto Terminal.app, which will accomplish the same task as Unix's cd.
That is not correct.
Dragging a folder to a terminal window is in no way related to cd.
All that happens is that the path to that folder is written out, as if you'd typed it.
This does not cd to that directory, it doesn't even imply you will cd to that directory after pressing return (unless you manually typed cd before you dragged the folder to the terminal, but the cd is entirely up to you - you might prefer to ls or even rmdir that directory, which are just as valid uses for the drag-and-drop).

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