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Linux file types. Did you know there are seven

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different types of Linux files in Linux, that

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includes directories, links, and whole bunch of

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other stuffs, let's look at them one by one. The

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first one is a regular file. Anything that does

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not have a letter associated to it at the

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beginning of it, it's a regular file. Anything

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that starts with d, it's a directory. Any

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attribute of a file that has an l in front of it

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is a link. And anything starts with c is a special

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file or device file, meaning if you attach a

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keyboard, or a CPU or a memory, anything that is

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attached to your system, that is also created as a

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file, and that file starts with c. And there is a

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socket file starts with s, named pipe that starts

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with p, and a block device that starts with b.

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Oftentimes, these are the type of questions that

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are asked during the interview, they'll ask you

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tell me the file that starts with c. What does

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that file is for or what is the file that starts

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with p. Now remember, I'm not talking about the

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file name. I'm talking about the first column that

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you see when you run ls -l that defines the

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type of file that you're dealing with.

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