Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

Common file operations

So far, we have mainly introduced commands related to navigation on the Linux filesystem. In earlier chapters, we already saw that we can use mkdir and touch to create directories and empty files, respectively. If we want to give a file some meaningful (text) content, we use vim or nano. However, we have not yet talked about removing files or directories, or copying, renaming, or creating shortcuts. Let's start with copying files.