[NRAO]

Basic File and Directory Navigation

Two Worlds, one underlying reality


  • Paradigm is the same, e.g.:
      C:\pmurphy\mystuff.txt
      /users/pmurphy/mystuff.txt

  • Delimiter: Unix/Linux uses / (forward slash), Windows uses \ (backslash)

  • Commands are similar: cd, ls or dir, mkdir

  • "Up one level" convention is two dots (both Windows and Unix/Linux)

  • Each file has:
    • Location: folder or directory name, plus file name
    • Ownership: Account name that owns the file
    • Protection: readable, writable, and more
    • Access Control: groups, access to file (including "world", "everyone")
 

Basic File and Directory Navigation
Pat Murphy