Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Listing Directories and Files with ls

Your Unix system is made up of directories and files that store a variety of information, including setup information, configuration settings, programs, and options, as well as other files and directories. You might think of your Unix system as being a tree (tree roots, actually), with subdirectories stemming from higher-level directories. As shown in Figure 1.6, all of these files and directories reside within the root directory, which contains everything in the system.

Figure 1.6. All files and directories are nested within the root directory, which serves to contain everything in the system.

Using the ...