By now you should have gathered basic knowledge on your filesystem. You know how to find help, list contents on your directories, copying and moving stuff around and also some theory behind the Linux Filesystem. Now let’s see how can you create and remove directories and files, one by one ore a few at a time!
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The magic of creation!
March 9th, 2007 — CLI, Linux, Tutorial
… and to move around stuff!
March 5th, 2007 — CLI, Linux, Tutorial
Object moving, is like a normal copy, but the source of the object gets deleted, or in special situations, renamed. To be a little bit more technical, when you issue the cp command to copy a file for example, this creates a completely new file system entry, data and inode. On the other hand the mv command simply changes where the file is located in the directory structure, or if you make a mv on a same directory, it simply changes the name of the object.
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We do love to copy…
March 5th, 2007 — CLI, Linux, Tutorial
A regular object (file, directory…) copy is a straightforward operation, it’s just a matter of replicating a object in a new location.
ie: cp /dir1/file1 /dir2/file2
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Your second nature…
March 2nd, 2007 — CLI, Linux, Tutorial
It’s very easy to list the contents of the current directory, or by specifying, any given directory. You can also use the listing command, to certify yourself that a file is where you think it is.
Now, listing command is a easy one to remember and it goes like this:
ls [option] [directories or files]
Let’s surf!
February 24th, 2007 — CLI, Tutorial
Its really calming to look to the ocean, the waves and all that vastness… but it’s even cooler if you grab a surfboard and go have phun fun, right? It’s the same with the Linux filesystem! You can know the theory and the preparation behind it, but if you don’t have a surfboard, you are just a spectator!
