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Linux Pocket Guide
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Linux Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett
February 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
200 pages
5h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Directory Operations

cd

Change your current directory

pwd

Print the name of your current directory, i.e., “where you are now” in the filesystem

basename

Print the final part of a file path

dirname

Remove the final part of a file path

mkdir

Create a directory

rmdir

Delete an empty directory

rm -r

Delete a nonempty directory and its contents

We discussed the directory structure of Linux in The Filesystem. Now we’ll cover commands that create, modify, delete, and manipulate directories within that structure.

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