Learn Linux File Management in 10 minutes

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In this lesson, I'm going to teach essential file management tools.
So to start with, there's the ls command. We have already seen the ls command. It's for list files, it lists files and directories in the current directory.

In Linux, most of the operations are performed on the files. And to handle these files in Linux has directories also known as folders which are maintained in the tree-like structure. Though, these directories are also the type of file themselves

Regular Files: It is a common file type in Linux. it includes all files like – text files, images, binary files, etc. Such files can be created using the touch command. They consist of the majority of files in the Linux/UNIX system. The regular file contains ASCII or Human Readable text, executable program binaries, program data, and much more.

Directories: Windows call these directories as folders. These are the files that store the list of file names and the related information. The root directory(/) is the base of the system, /home/ is the default location for user’s home directories, /bin for Essential User Binaries, /boot – Static Boot Files, etc.
Special Files: Represents a real physical device such as a printer which is used for IO operations. Device or special files are used for device Input/Output(I/O) on UNIX and Linux systems. You can see them in a file system as an ordinary directory or file.