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