February 2016
Beginner
167 pages
3h 29m
English
Much of what you’ll need to do on the command line involves working with files in some way—creating, deleting, copying, renaming, and moving them. This chapter covers the essentials of interacting with files and directories.
I want to mention a curious command called touch that serves two interesting functions:
touch creates an empty file.touch updates its modification date to the current date and time, marking it as modified.Try entering the following command:
touch file1
Now use ls -l to list the contents of your current directory. You’ll see file1 in the list. This file that you’ve just created is completely ...