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4 The Filesystem

In This Chapter

The Hierarchical Filesystem

Directory Files and Ordinary Files

The Working Directory

Your Home Directory

Pathnames

Relative Pathnames

Working with Directories

Access Permissions

ACLs: Access Control Lists

Hard Links

Symbolic Links

Dereferencing Symbolic Links

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

Define hierarchical filesystem, ordinary file, directory file, home directory, working directory, and parent directory

List best practices for filenames

Determine the name of the working directory ...

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