Working with Filenames and Path and Globing

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Motivation

Here you will get an rough overview of where to find things in the file system and how to navigate the file system.

File System Hierarchy

In Unix/Linux the Top of the file system is the root directory named /. There are no drive letters as you know them from a certain other operating system. What you find below is a structure that exists since the early days of Unix. Here are the most important directories and what they are used for in Linux.

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