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What’s the difference between files and directories in a Unix-like filesystem?

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What’s the difference between files and directories in a Unix-like filesystem?

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RSS BotMB to Lobste.rsEnglish · 2 hours ago
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Of Directories and inodes…
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Earlier this year, a student asked me an interesting question, which I’ll paraphrase as such: “What’s the difference between files and directories in a Unix-like filesystem? And what role do the inodes play?”

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