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The Linux filesystem — where everything lives

Week 01 · 5 min

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What this covers

Containers are Linux, and Linux puts everything in one tree starting at `/`. A guided tour of the directories you'll actually meet, and three commands to move around.

  1. Why Linux inside a container?
  2. The root: /
  3. pwd · ls · cd
  4. Tour of the important directories
  5. Absolute vs relative paths
  6. Home (~), current (.), parent (..)
  7. Hidden files — the dot prefix