December 2018
Beginner
452 pages
12h 17m
English
After copying some files and directories into our home directory (which is a safe bet, because we know for sure that we can write there!), we're left with a little mess. Instead of only creating files, let's use the rm command to remove some duplicate items:
reader@ubuntu:~$ ls -ltotal 556-rw-r--r-- 1 reader reader 550975 Aug 18 14:20 dpkg.log-rw-rw-r-- 1 reader reader 69 Jul 14 13:18 nanofile.txtdrwxrwxr-x 2 reader reader 4096 Aug 4 16:16 testdir-rwxr-xr-- 1 reader reader 0 Aug 4 13:44 testfile-rwxr-xr-- 1 reader reader 0 Aug 18 14:00 testfilecopydrwxrwxr-t 9 reader reader 4096 Aug 18 14:38 tmpdrwxrwx--- 2 reader reader 4096 Aug 4 16:18 umaskdir-rw-rw---- 1 reader games 0 Aug 4 16:18 umaskfilereader@ubuntu:~$ rm testfilecopyreader@ubuntu:~$ ...