What is INODE?

Answer Posted / satchi

You can say its a pointer to a file or directory.Each file
associated with a inode which contains 2 kinds of
information.
1.File name ,owner,permision
2. The data block for the file.

to see the inode value of a file type
#ls -i <filename>

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