Spring Into Linux®

Chapter 9. File Management

All information on Linux is organized into files. All information, without exception. A file is the mechanism that Linux uses to store information. You are most likely to need to know about and manage files that contain the following types of information:

• Data files: Files that contain information stored on the computer. Two types of data files are:

  • Application-specific files: Information created by a specific application, stored in a format that only the application can interpret. Creating, changing, storing, or printing the data file must be done using the application. The documents created by many word processing applications are stored in an application-specific file.

  • Text files: Information stored in a common ...