February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1440 pages
30h 42m
English
We have already covered two topics that can serve as the basis for a discussion of absolute and relative path names: some important directories on the system and user login. If you take a look at the user denise and the way some of her files can be organized, we can get to the bottom of relative and absolute path names quickly.
The UNIX file system covered in Chapter 2 showed a hierarchy. In this hierarchy, there was the root (/) directory at the top, and files and directories were below root. The two means by which you can traverse this hierarchy to get to a "lower" point are with absolute path names and relative path names. Let's take a closer look at the files and directories that denise may have in her user ...
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