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A home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) are defined by the operating system involved; for example, Linux / BSD systems use /home/ username or /usr/home/ username and Windows systems since Windows Vista use \Users\ username .
Command Explanation pwd: Display the current working directory. Example: /home/foobar pwd -P: Display the current working directory physical path - without symbolic link name, if any. Example: If standing in a dir /home/symlinked, that is a symlink to /home/realdir, this would show /home/realdir pwd -L
This is a list of commands from the GNU Core Utilities for Unix environments. These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems. GNU Core Utilities include basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities. Coreutils includes all of the basic command-line tools that are expected in a POSIX system.
See the List of GNU Core Utilities commands for a brief description of included commands. Alternative implementation packages are available in the FOSS ecosystem, with a slightly different scope and focus (less functionality), or license. For example, BusyBox which is licensed under GPL-2.0-only, and Toybox which is licensed under 0BSD.
Using the command line command dir /ah displays the files with the Hidden attribute. In addition, there is a System file attribute that can be set on a file, which also causes the file to be hidden in directory listings. Use the command line command dir /as to display the files with the System attribute.
The second command mounts the device on the directory /home/you/dir. The overall effect of executing these two commands is that the content of the file is used as a file system rooted at the mount point. To identify an available loop device for use in the above commands, the superuser (root) can use: losetup -f
Several Linux distributions have made "browser" mode the default. The "classic" interface is still available: By a filing cabinet shaped icon. By an option in the "Edit -> Preferences -> Behavior" menu in Nautilus. In a folder's context menu. By using the "--browser" switch when started by a command via a launcher or shell.
grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression and by default reporting matching lines on standard output. tree is a command-line utility that recursively lists files found in a directory tree, indenting the filenames according to their position in the file hierarchy.