CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 Cert Guide

Chapter 2

Managing Files and Directories

This chapter covers the following topics:

• File and Directory Operations

• File Metadata and File Types

• Soft and Hard Links

• File Compression, Archiving, and Backup

• Copying Objects Between Systems

• File Editing

The exam objective covered in this chapter is as follows:

• Objective 1.2: Given a scenario, manage files and directories

Management of files and directories is very important on a Linux system, as literally every single thing on a Linux system is a file of some kind, and directories are files of the type directory.

Properly managing these files includes many tasks, such as displaying information about the files to know more about what you are managing, contents of the files, creating, altering the ...