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Glossary
directory
A table of identi ers and references (such as le names) that refer
to corresponding les and items of data. Used in a typical HP-UX
organizational structure to provide an organizational and logical identity for
a given group of les and directories.
environment
The set of de ned shell variables (some of which are PATH, TERM,
SHELL, HOME) that de ne the conditions under which your commands
run. These conditions can include your terminal characteristics, home
directory, and default search path.
le access permissions
File name characteristics (including
determine whether a process can perform a requested operation on the le
(such as opening a le for writing). Access permissions can be changed by
chmod (1) command.
the
leset
A logically-de ned, named set of les on an update or installation tape.
le system
The organization of les on a given storage device, possibly including
hierarchical directories.
$HOME
The value of the environment variable representing the home directory .
home directory
The directory name given by the value of the shell variable HOME. This is
the directory where the user starts after logging in, typically
login is your login name.
where
host name
Refers to a string which uniquely identi es a system in a network. There
are generally di erent host name domains associated with di erent
networks.
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read, write , and execute ) which
login ,
/users/
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