Filesystem Operations | Into the Terminal 54
Channel: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Date: 13/01/2023

Have you ever wondered how to find files on your system or what /etc, /var, /opt, and others are actually used for?

In this episode, Scott and Eric discuss essential commands you need to know to find files and why Red Hat packagers put things in the directory structure where they do according to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

Commands:
which
locate
find
dnf whatprovides
dnf repolist
rpm -ql
dnf repoquery

Chapters:
00:00 Stream start
00:31 Finding package content
07:58 Introduction
09:28 Querying packages
10:55 Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
22:19 FHS continued
37:36 Wrap up