“Everything is a file” is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.
Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.
“Everything is a file” is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.
Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.
That might be part of it, but I was thinking it was more how things we don’t think of as files, like sockets, are accessed with a file descriptor.
Also hardware is treated like a file in /dev
Hell, Bash provides filesystem-based sockets in
/dev/tcp, so a tcp connection can almost be like Unix sockets or anything else.