File Manipulation Commands

You can try any of these commands by cutting them with your mouse and pasting them into a UNIX window. If there are filenames or other variables you need to change, they are indicated by italics .

mv fold fnew: Copy fold to fnew, remove fold (i.e. rename),
: files can be in different directories.
rm fold: Remove (delete) fold.
rm -rf directory: Remove directory and everything in it.
cp fold fnew: Copy fold to fnew, destroy previous fnew.
cat fileA > fileB: Copy fileA to fileB.
cat fileA >> fileB: Append fileA to end of fileB (add to end).
ls: List files in present directory.
ls -l: A long list of files.

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