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All information on Linux is organized into files. All information, without exception. Some files you might need to know about and manage are data files, programs, image files, and configuration files. Although you usually create and manage files with applications, on some occasions you need to create, copy, move, delete, and otherwise manage files directly.

Files are located in directories, also called folders, organized in a hierarchical file system. Each account has a home directory where it can store files. Each file is uniquely identified by an absolute file path, which lists all the directories between / (the top directory called root) and the file.

Each file has properties, such as its name, location, size, and date created. Each file is protected by a system of permissions that define whether only the user owner, the group owner, or anyone can access it and what each can do with it.

You can create and delete files. You can examine and change the properties and permissions of a file from the desktop or from the command line. You can edit file contents using text editors. This chapter explains how to do the following:

  • Examine and change file permissions

  • Examine and change owners and groups

  • Associate file types with applications

  • Find files

  • Create directories, files, and links

  • Copy, rename, move, and delete files and directories

  • Edit the contents of text files

Chapter 10 discusses programs and applications. In particular, you find out how to install and update software on your Linux system.

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    Spring Into Linux
    Spring Into Linux
    ISBN: 0131853546
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 362
    Authors: Janet Valade

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