Filesystem and Navigation
Part of the Linux course
In the last lesson you ran a handful of commands and read their output, but you never moved anywhere. Every command you typed happened in the same spot. That is about to change, because Linux keeps every file and folder on the machine, whether it belongs to the system, an application, or you, in one single structure. There is no "Drive C" and no "Drive D" the way there might be on other operating systems.
Picture an upside-down tree: the root is at the top, and every branch grows downward from it. In Linux, that root is written as a single forward slash, /. Every file on the system, no matter which physical disk it actually lives on, has an address that starts by walking down from /.
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Start this lessonFilesystem and NavigationWhat you'll learn
- Filesystem tree
- Ls
- Cd
- Hidden files
- Absolute vs relative paths
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All lessons in this course
17 lessons- 1The Shell and First Commands20 min
- 2Filesystem and Navigation25 min
- 3Files and Permissions30 min
- 4Text Tools: grep, sed, awk30 min
- 5Pipes and Redirection25 min
- 6Processes and Signals30 min
- 7Users and Groups25 min
- 8Package Management25 min
- 9Networking Basics30 min
- 10Shell Scripting35 min
- 11systemd Services35 min
- 12SSH and Remote Access30 min
- 13Logs and Journals25 min
- 14Disks and Storage30 min
- 15Cron and Scheduled Tasks25 min
- 16Performance and Monitoring30 min
- 17Capstone: Server Setup60 min
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