CL101:Directories

Command Line 101 Class Notes
	Sections Home The Shell Directories File Management Viewing Files GREP The Pipe Chaining Cool Tricks Where do I go from here?

/

• The root. Base of everything. Everything is ether in, or mounted in root.

/etc

• Holds most configuration files

/usr

• Holds most static data

/bin

• Story about bin vs /usr/bin

/var

• Holds most variable data
  • Logs in /var/logs

/home (/User)

• Holds User's home data
• $HOME

/tmp

• Holds temporary data
• Cleared out on reboot
  • Sometimes there is a job to clean out older entires more regularly.

The story of /bin vs /usr/bin

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