:The Slack World: Slack Classes: GNU/find for Dummies (Part 1)
The Slack World: Slack Classes: GNU/find for Dummies (Part 1) Jun 10, 2005, 08 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4642 reads) (Other stories by Ayaz Ahmed Khan)
"Everything one sees on a running GNU/Linux system is a file. Everything! Even a directory is nothing more than an innocuous file. One consequence of this simplistic, everything-is-a-file abstraction is that files become central to both the underlying operating system and the set of users using the system regularly. As an extension, it is obvious that user data, which is almost always important to users, is a vast collection of numerous files of different types..."
