FAQ: Navigation - Filesystem

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Filesystem” exercise from the lesson “Navigation”.

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I notice that the names of the files/folders shown in the tree structure do not have slashes after them. The names used in the “Learn” column have slashes: blog/, 2014/, 2015/. What do these slashes mean? Are they optional?

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You write the slash when you are writing a path of folders. For example:
home -> ccuser -> workspace -> blog is written /home/ccuser/workspace/blog
The path to the file hardware.txt is /home/ccuser/workspace/blog/hardware.txt