Lesson 1.8: Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
Create folder & files
[sanjeeb@server folder]$ mkdir folder1 [sanjeeb@server folder]$ ls folder1 [sanjeeb@server folder]$ touch file1 [sanjeeb@server folder]$ ls file1 folder1
Delete files & folders
[sanjeeb@server folder]$ ls file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 folder1 [sanjeeb@server folder]$ rm -rf file* [sanjeeb@server folder]$ ls folder1 [sanjeeb@server folder]$ rm -rf folder* [sanjeeb@server folder]$ ls
Copy files
[sanjeeb@server ~]$ ls Desktop Documents Downloads folder image.png Marketing Music Pictures Public Scripts Templates test Videos [sanjeeb@server ~]$ cp /home/sanjeeb/image.png /home/sanjeeb/folder/ [sanjeeb@server ~]$ ls /home/sanjeeb/folder/ file1 folder1 image.png
Move files
[sanjeeb@server ~]$ touch file2 [sanjeeb@server ~]$ ls Desktop Downloads folder Marketing Pictures Scripts test Documents file2 image.png Music Public Templates Videos [sanjeeb@server ~]$ mv /home/sanjeeb/file2 /home/sanjeeb/folder/ [sanjeeb@server ~]$ ls /home/sanjeeb/folder/ file1 file2 folder1 image.png [sanjeeb@server ~]$ ls /home/sanjeeb/ Desktop Documents Downloads folder image.png Marketing Music Pictures Public Scripts Templates test Videos