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Linux file types

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at Linux file types. Everything on a Unix system, similarly on a Linux system, is a file. Let's look at the different types. Most common are regular files. These are your data files for the programs that you're used to using. JPGs, text files, videos, there are also binary libraries that are used by the operating system or the programs running on top of it. The next kind of file is a directory, and that's simply a means of organizing groups of files. We also have links. There's different types of links, but the thing to remember about links is they're basically shortcuts to some other file. There's named pipes and sockets, sometimes called FIFOs and these are used to pass data between processes. Last we have the device file, originally called character special files. These are simply interfaces for device drivers. There's one command I'd like you to remember that's useful when working with file types in Linux and that is the file command. If we do a…

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