More About Files
and
Directories
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Because you can
put
files in different directories, you and
your
coworkers
can have files
with
the
same names,
but
with
unrelated
content.
The
following figure illustrates a typical multilevel direc-
tory structure:
Root directory
I
I
Illl
I
Memos
Bin
User Accounts Programs
I
III
I
Pete
Emily
Isabel
~~
I
Forms
r
Sales./
Sales. I
may may
In this example, five subdirectories
of
the
root
directory
have
been
created. These subdirectories are:
• A directory
of
external commands, named
bin.
• A user directory containing separate subdirectories for all
users
of
the
system.
• A directory containing accounting information, named
accounts.
• A directory
of
programs, named programs.
• A directory
of
text
files, named memos.
As you can see, Pete, Emily, and Isabel
each
have
their
own
directories, which are subdirectories
of
the
user directory. Emily
has a subdirectory named
forms, and
both
Emily and Isabel have
sales.
may
files in their directories,
even
though Isabel's
sales.
may
file is unrelated
to
Emily's.
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