Spring Into Linux®

Summary

All information on Linux is organized into files. All information, without exception. Some files you might need to know about and manage are data files, programs, image files, and configuration files. Although you usually create and manage files with applications, on some occasions you need to create, copy, move, delete, and otherwise manage files directly.

Files are located in directories, also called folders, organized in a hierarchical file system. Each account has a home directory where it can store files. Each file is uniquely identified by an absolute file path, which lists all the directories between / (the top directory called root) and the file.

Each file has properties, such as its name, location, size, and date created. Each ...