still more File Naming Conventions

• Your HOME directory is always at "~" (tilde). That is, "~" as the start of a pathname represents the current user's home directory. Does it count as absolute or relative?

• there are no 'drives' (A: or C:) as in Microsoft OSes. Instead there is a single tree-structure of directories, with mount points for storage devices (like /media/disk for a USB stick emulating a hard drive).

• To execute a program from your current directory, preface it with "./" so it can be found (this has nothing to do with the slash-dot ("/.") web site.

• If you prefer, you can add "./" to your PATH:

• PATH=$PATH:./