May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
19h 12m
English
In this chapter, you will learn about
• The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
• Managing Linux files
• Finding files in the Linux filesystem
• Understanding commands and precedence
• Finding content within files
The datasets looked so good that we realized this will probably go into people’s arms.
—Kizzmekia S. Corbett, National Institutes of Health
In this chapter, you get to know the Linux filesystem, including the hierarchical structure of the Linux filesystem and Linux file types. Then you will work with files and directories. Let’s begin by discussing the role of the filesystem.
Linux stores data on physical hard disks, which in ...