As a beginner user of Unix or Linux, people would frequently get confused about the use of different directories of the system. For example, there is a /bin directory under root(/), it is used to store binary files. However, there are /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin under /usr which are used for storing binary files as well. Some systems even have /opt/bin. What are the differences among them?Though there are articles explaining different directories in *nix such as Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, it's not clear why these directories are present and their history. Rob Landley filled part ...

diff is an important tool program in Unix. It is used to compare differences of two files, it is the foundation for code version control. If you type :$ diff <file_before_change> <file_after_change>diff will tell you what's the difference between these two files. The result may not be so easy to understand, so now I will show you how to understand diff.1. 3 formats of diffdiff has 3 formats due to historic reasons.normal diffcontext diffunified diff2. Demo filesFor easy demonstration, we create 2 demo files.The first one is f1, it has 7 lines of a in it.aaaaaaaThe second file is f2...