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Working with files and directories

File and directory attributes

The system handles files and directories in the same way; directories are just specialized files, containing other files and directories rather than program code or text. Files and directories both have a name, a path, and a set of attributes. Internally, the system keeps track of files and directories using inodes, or index nodes. See ``How the system manages files and directories''.

A simple way of checking some of the attributes of a file or directory is the long listing, obtained using the -l option to the ls(C) command (or just l):

What you see in a long listing


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