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Understand the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy - Linux Tutorial
From the course: CompTIA Linux (XK0-005) Cert Prep
Understand the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
- [Instructor] The Linux file system is extensive and has many, many directories. Historically, Linux distributions placed files wherever they wanted, making it difficult to go from one distribution to another. However, there's now a file system hierarchy standard that most Linux distributions try to adhere to. We'll start with a top-level directory. The slash directory is a special one because every file and folder in the entire operating system is nested under this one directory. Some have related this to the C Drive in Windows, but really, it's more than that. It's as if all of the drives in a computer were stored in one folder. It's common to call this "the root directory", because it's at the root of the file system, I will call it "slash", or the top level directory, to limit confusion with one of the other similarly named directories, which we'll cover in a moment. Let's start with a /bin directory, which stores…
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About Linux Shells6m 21s
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About Linux Terminals1m 50s
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Get help on the command line5m 8s
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Understand the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy8m 22s
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Understand filesystem paths6m 2s
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Create files and dirs4m 11s
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Get information about files5m 29s
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Copy files and dirs4m 39s
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Move and rename files and dirs4m 11s
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Remove files and dirs3m 44s
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Create links to files and dirs6m 24s
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Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>)1m 55s
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Connect programs with named and unnamed pipes4m 19s
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File redirects and tees6m 7s
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Find files using Locate4m 11s
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Find files with Find7m 28s
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