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Files on Linux

Files on Linux

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Files on Linux

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- [Instructor] A file is a collection of binary data that represents information either a human or a computer can use. Even though files are made up of binary data, we generally talk about files being of one of two types depending on how they're intended to be interpreted. As text or binary. The bytes of information in text files are interpreted to represent letters and numbers, and what we call binary files are interpreted as other kinds of data. Binaries are files we can't read ourselves, they contain information that computers can use to run software or to display an image or something like that. Text files however are readable both by humans and computers, and because of that, most configuration, logging and mail on a Linux system are text files. Files are organized into directories or folders, based on what part of the system they pertain to, or whether the user has organized them into a particular structure. On Linux there's a set of guidelines called the Filesystem Hierarchy…

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