Unix Tutorial

Directories and Files

If you’ve ever seen a tree, you know what directory structure is like. In Unix, the base directory is called the “root,” which is analogous to a certain part of a tree that I don’t think I should have to mention. The root is often referred to as a slash, ‘/.’ Below that are, most likely, multitudinous directories, and under those, perhaps more directories, and in those directories are files.

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