Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen;Ossama Othman
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/home/janeq.
This is the home directory of user ``janeq.'' Reading left to right, to get to this directory you start in the root directory, enter directory home, and then enter directory janeq. /etc/X11/XF86Config. This is the configuration file for the X Window system. It resides in the X11 subdirectory of the /etc directory. /etc is in turn a subdirectory of the root directory, /. Things to note: * Filenames are case-sensitive. That is, MYFILE and MyFile are different files. * The root directory is referred to as simply /. Don't confuse this ``root'' with the root user, the user on your system with ``super powers.'' * Every directory has a name, which can contain any letters or symbols except /. The root directory is an exception; its name is / (pronounced ``slash'' or ``the root directory''), and it cannot be renamed. * While you can use almost any letters or symbols in a filename, in practice it's a bad idea. It is better to avoid characters that often have special meanings on the command line, including: { } ( ) [ ] ' ` " \/ > < | ; ! # & ^ * % * Also avoid putting spaces in filenames. If you want to separate words in a name, good choices are the period, hyphen, and underscore. You could also capitalize each word, LikeThis. * Each file or directory is designated by a fully-qualified filename, absolute filename, or path, giving the sequence of directories which |
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