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Summary

In this chapter, you learned:

  • Files on a Linux system are organized into a single inverted tree of directories, known as a file-system hierarchy.

  • Absolute paths start with a / and specify the location of a file in the file-system hierarchy.

  • Relative paths do not start with a / and specify the location of a file relative to the current working directory.

  • Five key commands are used to manage files: mkdir, rmdir, cp, mv, and rm.

  • Hard links and soft links are different ways to have multiple file names point to the same data.

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