Work with Files and Directories

In this objective, you learn how to do the following to work with files:

• Copy and Move Files and Directories

• Create Directories

• Delete Files and Directories

• Link Files

Copy and Move Files and Directories

To copy and move files and directories, you need to know how to do the following:

• Move Files with mv

• Copy Files with cp

Create Directories

You can use the command mkdir (make directory) to create new directories (such as mkdir demo).

Delete Files and Directories

In this section you learn how to do the following:

• Delete Empty Directories with rmdir

• Delete Files and Directories with rm

Linux recognizes two kinds of links:

• Hard links

• Symbolic links