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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Extreme Beginner Post 302915973 by SomeDudeOnline on Friday 5th of September 2014 02:20:00 PM
Old 09-05-2014
Extreme Beginner

Hi everyone,

I just started my ERP Systems Administration class a couple weeks ago and we're focusing on Unix/Linux and SAP systems. For Unix/Linux we're using Putty.

This teacher is trying to make the class as close to as real as a job as he can. The class is at 9 AM (he teaches an 8 AM class right before this) and he doesn't really give any instruction as to how to accomplish anything. He gives us homework and groupwork with things to be done but no how to or reference material. In class he's lectured a little bit on commands and shortcuts in linux/unix (most of it went over my head) but that's about all the instruction we get.

So my questions are probably so basic I should be embarrassed, but I currently know next to nothing so please bare with me. And to be clear I'm not complaining about the style of the class (yet lol) just letting you know why my questions are so elementary.

Code:
cd /bin 
pwd
ls -l

After entering the code above one of the questions is:
What is the meaning of having a “d”, “l” or “-“as the first character in the display from the above command?

As I understand it, the code is taking me to the bin directory (not sure what that is) and pwd is simply displaying the directory I'm currently in. ls -l is to list files and directories, I assume -l is to display the files and directories in "l" (whatever "l" is).

With that being said, I believe a "d" as the first character means that the file is a directory or sub-directory. Files starting with "l" seem to have text in the far right column colored blue while files starting with "-" have text in the far right column colored green. And some of the data in the far right column for the "l" files point farther right to green data.

What does all of this tell me? I have no idea.

Can anyone help me out with this?
 

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LINSYSFS(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						       LINSYSFS(5)

NAME
linsysfs -- Linux system file system SYNOPSIS
linsys /compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw 0 0 DESCRIPTION
The Linux system file system, or linsysfs, emulates a subset of the Linux sys file system and is required for the complete operation of some Linux binaries. The linsysfs provides a two-level view of devices. At the highest level, PCI devices themselves are named, according to their bus, slot and function in the system hierarchy. PCI storage devices are listed in the scsi_host class with a device symlink to the PCI directories of the devices. Each device node is a directory containing some files and directories: host A place holder for storage host information. pci_id A directory for the pci_id that contains either the device information or another directory structure for a PCI bridge. Each host node of scsi_host is a directory containing some files and directories: proc_name The Linux registered driver name for these devices. device A symlink to the PCI device directory. FILES
/compat/linux/sys The normal mount point for linsysfs. /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host The storage host node. /compat/linux/sys/devices/pci0000:00 The PCI device hierarchy node. EXAMPLES
The most common usage follows: mount -t linsysfs linsys /compat/linux/sys where /compat/linux/sys is a mount point. SEE ALSO
nmount(2), unmount(2), linprocfs(5), pseudofs(9) HISTORY
The linsysfs driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.2. AUTHORS
The linsysfs driver was derived from linprocfs by Doug Ambrisko. This manual page was edited by Doug Ambrisko, based on the linprocfs(5) manual page by Garrett Wollman. BSD
February 5, 2007 BSD
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