Sams Teach Yourself UNIX® in 24 Hours Second Edition

Manipulating the UNIX File System

You know how to find out what files are where in the file system using ls, but there are also various incredibly useful commands that let you manipulate and modify files, directories, and the file system itself. That's what we'll focus on here.

Task 6.1: Creating New Directories Using mkdir

One important aspect of UNIX that has been emphasized continually in this book is that the UNIX file system is hierarchical. The UNIX file system includes directories containing files and directories, each directory of which can contain yet more files and directories. Your own home directory, however, probably doesn't contain ...