Working with Directories

The directory tree of the Unix system is well organized. A few important directories are given below:

/           -    Root directory, start of the directory tree

/bin      -    Commands needed to run the system

/dev     -    Device files which represent the system hardware

/etc      -    Used for Important system configuration files

/home  -    Used for the private directories of the users

/lib                   Shared libraries

/opt      -    Optional software, large systems

/proc    -    The process File System

/sbin     -    For the superuser Commands reserved and required for system start

/tmp     -    Temporary files

/usr      -    User commands and Configuration files, applications, can be mounted read-only

/usr/bin    -    Publicly accessible commands

/usr/sbin  -    Used for Commands reserved for the superuser

/var      -    Configuration files (linked from /usr)