Computer & Online Safety Basics / How computers work
Lesson 6 of 30
Files, folders and paths
Files live inside folders, and a path is the address of a file. Windows paths look like C:\Users\Fahad\notes.txt and Linux paths look like /home/fahad/notes.txt.
Key points
- File extensions hint at the type: .txt .png .py
- Linux paths use forward slashes
- Absolute paths start from the top of the drive
Quiz · +10 XP
Which of these is a Linux-style path?
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