HP-Certified HP-UX System Administration

Chapter 2. Working with Files and Directories

Chapter Syllabus

• 2.1 Basic Operations on Files

• 2.2 File Naming Rules

• 2.3 Working with Directories

• 2.4 Copying and Moving Files

• 2.5 Wildcards

• 2.6 File Types

• 2.7 Searching File Contents

• 2.8 Finding Files

• 2.9 Miscellaneous File Handling Commands

As a user of a UNIX system, dealing with files is a routine task. A considerable proportion of time is consumed working with files. To make the best use of your time, you always need to reduce time spent on file handling. This can be accomplished through efficient use of commands related to file and directory operations. HP-UX provides a simple and powerful command mechanism. Other uses of file handling commands are for grouping these commands and passing output of one ...