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Chapter 4. Write Your First Chef Recipe
Create a Directory Structure for Your Code
Since we will be writing a lot of code over the remainder of this topic, let's create a simple
directory structure—organizing the code by chapter—like the one below (There is no need to
use this exact directory structure to organize your files. It is only a suggestion. Use a system
that makes sense to you):
learningchef
|_ chap04
|_ chap05
...
|_ chap16
In your home directory, create a subdirectory named learningchef , making it the current dir-
ectory:
$ cd
$ mkdir learningchef
$ cd learningchef
Then create a chap04 subdirectory for the code examples you will be writing in this chapter.
Make chap04 the current directory:
$ mkdir chap04
$ cd chap04
Follow a similar pattern for each new chapter, creating a new subdirectory underneath learn-
ingchef to contain each chapter's examples. The code examples for this topic follow this con-
vention. When a specific directory structure is required for an example, we'll let you know;
otherwise, assume you can put the files anywhere you find convenient.