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7.3.1 Examples for Working with Files and Directories

Suppose you want to copy a le located somewhere in your home directory to a

subdirectory of /tmp that you need to create rst.

Procedure 7.1 Creating and Changing Directories

From your home directory create a subdirectory in /tmp:

1 Enter

mkdir /tmp/test

mkdir stands for “make directory”. This command creates a new directory

named test in the /tmp directory. In this case, you are using an absolute path

to create the test directory.

2 To check what happened, now enter

ls -l /tmp

The new directory test should appear in the list of contents of the /tmp direc-

tory.

3 Switch to the newly created directory with

cd /tmp/test

Procedure 7.2 Creating and Copying Files

Now create a new le in a subdirectory of your home directory and copy it to /tmp/

test. Use a relative path for this task.

IMPORTANT: Overwriting of Existing Files

Before copying, moving or renaming a le, check if your target directory already

contains a le with the same name. If yes, consider changing one of the lenames

or use cp or mv with options like -i, which will prompt before overwriting an ex-

isting le. Otherwise Bash will overwrite the existing le without conrmation.

1 To list the contents of your home directory, enter

ls -l ~

It should contain a subdirectory called Documents by default. If not, create this

subdirectory with the mkdir command you already know:

mkdir ~/Documents

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