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3.5) Understanding Directories (cont'd)


In your home directory, I want you to make a new directory by typing:

mkdir research

If you type ls you should see this directory now in your home directory. On many systems, directories end with a ‘/’ after the name, as in ‘research/’ and this is one way to determine it is a directory. Many systems will also colour directories as blue but that depends on the way you system has been set up. I will later show you a way to distinguish directories from files no matter what system you are on.