Gazeek.com: The Complete Linux Introduction–Part 1

“If you are comfortable at the DOS prompt, you should see a lot
of similarities in Linux; if most of your experience has been in
Windows, the command line may seem a little awkward at first.

“Remember that Linux has an hierarchical, unified filesystem
(directories within directories; and files, directories, and device
drivers are treated as files), supports 256-character filenames
(avoid symbols and punctuation except for the dot (.) and note that
you can have more than one nonadjacent dots in the filename–e.g.,
this.is.okay). All command line entries are case sensitive. Also
note that Linux uses the slash (/) rather than the backslash ()
you’ve been using in DOS…”

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