On 23/08/2020 15:59, Hendrik Boom 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?
if you refer to the "string" to object on the filesystem, "path" is a
good word for it.
A Path can be either a file or a directory (or a link...)