Echoing path in ubuntu returns following colon separated paths,
/home/stack/bin:/home/stack/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
In these paths at some places there is local while at others .local is used what is the difference between both?
Best Answer
in this particular case,
local
is a visible directory, and.local
is a hidden directory. you can see list of all hidden directory and/or files in a certain directory usingls -a
orls .*
command.