SAMS Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours FOURTH EDITION

Chapter 6. Creating, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Files and Directories

In this hour, you learn the basic Unix file-manipulation commands. These commands will explain how to create directories with mkdir, remove directories with rmdir, use cp and mv to move files about in the file system, and use rm to remove files. The rm command has its dangers: You learn that there isn't an “unremove” command in Unix, and you also learn how to circumvent the possible dangers that lurk in the program.

Goals for This Hour

In this hour, you will learn how to

• Create new directories using mkdir

• Copy files to new locations using cp

• Move files to new locations using mv

• Rename files using mv

• Remove directories using rmdir

• Remove files using rm

• Minimize the danger of using ...