On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 08:26:47PM -0400, . via Dng wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:59:53 -0400
> > Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
> > There are files and directories.
> >
> > Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> > for something which might be a file or a directory?
> >
> > -- hendrik
>
>
> Maybe "filesystem element" ?

That would work.

>
> My understanding is that filesystems such as /dev and /proc contain
> things that aren't quite files /or/ directories.
>

Right. I wouldn't mind it the noun included those, too. I will run
into them occasionally, stat them and decide I don't need to process them.

-- hendrik



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