I’m kinda a newbie to linux (…going on 20 years now, slow learner). I recently came across tldr and don’t know how I lived without it, because man pages can be a little much for a non technical person.
Is there a helpfile / command to learn the purpose of the current root directory you are in? I’ve been reading a few books on Linux at the library, and everything about it kinda fascinates me, and I can’t stop asking questions trying to learn about it…
My current question is what is /etc/skel/ . It’s an empty directory and it has some purpose. Is there a tool to query what the purpose of this directory is? Like whatis . or something like that, for educational purposes; rather than having to web search/“google” it everytime.
I know you said man pages are too technical but…
man hier? https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/hier.7.html/etc/skel When a new user account is created, files from this directory are usually copied into the user's home directory.Apparently “skel” is short for “skeleton”, i.e. the skeleton for a new user home directory.
interesting! thank you
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard