This is known as a hierarchical file specification in geek terminology, but it's called a canonical filename for short. For example, here is the file specification for the Terminal application: I can't tell you exactly what the path to your home account looks like (since I don't know your short user name), so here are some handy notes of reference.Ī file specification is the entire path from the root of the volume it resides on to the end of the file name. This should help novice computer users and those unfamiliar with standard notation to learn how to navigate to the folders mentioned throughout this article.
By 'notation' I am referring to the path name.
I first want to mention the notation of file locations.
