its fucking amazing I have to go to RU-vid to get taught shit. taking a college class for linux and they not teaching me shit. dunno why I'm paying for nothing
/etc means the directory 'etc' located in the root of the filesystem, which is represented by the / character by itself, the full path of the directory being /etc, and is a directory that exists on every Linux system as a place to store system-wide configuration files the etc directory without the slash was a newly-created directory by Jay, which was created in Jay's home directory when he copied it from /etc the full path of Jay's etc copy would be /home/jay/etc, or represented in short as ~/etc, with ~ being shorthand for your own user's home directory, but was simply referred to as 'etc' because Jay was already working from within his own home directory, therefore specifying its full path was unnecessary
@@shallex5744 thanks , also how would you differentiate/understand Trailing slashes / example - when using mv command or something else - mv source /dir or mv source/ /dir/
@@abhishektyagi4428 i'm not sure, i never use trailing slashes (intentionally), but after testing it just now, moving the file source/ with the slash at the end doesn't work because putting the slash at the end makes the mv command think you're trying to move a directory when it is actually a file, and gives the error "Not a directory"
I've often wondered, as the tar file is uncompressed and the same size as all files combined why not just create a new directory instead of the tar file? The directory can be compressed if there is a need to save space.
The command syntax you're looking for is: tar -xf $FILENAME.tar.gz --one-top-level=$NEW_DIRECTORY_NAME This will create a new directory within your current directory and unzip the contents of the tarball into that directory. On its own, tar just bundles files, you'd need to add -c to your command to actually compress the newly created tarball.
