Lesson 6 · Reading the map
Important directories
/home contains user homes, /etc stores system configuration, /var holds changing data such as logs, /tmp is for temporary files, and /usr contains many installed programs and shared resources. Reading a file with cat does not modify it.
Example
cat ~/welcome.txtcat prints a text file to the terminal without modifying it. Here it reads a short example file from your home directory.
Try it
List root, then display the system release file stored at /etc/os-release.
Lost? Run pwd to orient yourself. A bare cd returns home, and Restart lesson restores the starting location (~).
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