Directory and List

Directory is in the form of attributes of files directory. information - information about the location of a file. dominant information related to file storage. This directory is a kind of a file that is owned by the operating system and can be accessed by regular and unrestricted in computer operating systems, and the man regarded as a place to put a data file or document - the document.

There is a directory component of the file system that contains one or more files or one or more other directories, called subdirectories. Limits the number of files or subdirectories that can be accommodated in a directory depends on the file system used, although most of the file system does not limit (the limit due to the size of the storage media in which the directory is located).

A directory that contains one or more directories called the parent directory of these directories, and any directories contained in a directory called the child directory. The directory structure is commonly known as the hierarchical structure of directories, or often referred to as a directory tree.