Chapter 3

Essential File Management Tools

This chapter covers the following subjects:

The following RHCSA exam objectives are covered in this chapter:

  • Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories

  • Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2

  • Create hard and soft links

Linux is a file-oriented operating system. That means that many things an administrator has to do on Linux can be traced down to managing files on the Linux operating system. Also, when using hardware devices, files are involved. This chapter introduces you to essential file management skills. You learn how the Linux file system ...

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