Directory Terms

Question 1

What is the home directory?

Answer 1

The primary repository of a user’s files, including that user’s configuration files, and it is usually the directory in which a user finds itself when it logs into a system.

Home directories for users other than root user, are by default created in the /home directory.

Question 2

What is the root directory?

Answer 2

the top-level directory on a system. The directory in which all other directories, including their subdirectories, and files reside.

The root directory, in turn, takes its name from the fact that the filesystems (i.e., the entire hierarchy of directories that is used to organize files) in Unix-like operating systems have been designed with a tree-like (although inverted) structure in which all directories branch off from a single directory that is analogous to the root of a tree.

Question 3

What is your home directory?

Answer 3

the directory you are placed in when you log in.

Question 4

What does the “splat” or “glob” operator symbol look like? And what does it do?

Answer 4

*

A wildcard of the command line that represents “any characters.”