Moving, Copying, Deleting & Viewing files in Linux / Bash scripting is a necessity, these tasks are performed very commenly while working in Linux environments, following are few Linux commands to perform said tasks:
ls -l
List files in current directory using long format.
ls -F
List files in current directory and indicate the file type.
ls -laC
List all files in current directory in long format and display in columns.
rm name
Remove a file or directory called name.
rm -rf name
Kill off an entire directory and all it’s includes files and subdirectories.
cp filename /home/dirname
Copy the file called filename to the /home/dirname directory.
mv filename /home/dirname
Move the file called filename to the /home/dirname directory.
cat filetoview
Display the file called filetoview.
man -k keyword
Display man pages containing keyword.
more filetoview
Display the file called filetoview one page at a time, proceed to next page using the spacebar.
head filetoview
Display the first 10 lines of the file called filetoview.
head -20 filetoview
Display the first 20 lines of the file called filetoview.
tail filetoview
Display the last 10 lines of the file called filetoview.
tail -20 filetoview
Display the last 20 lines of the file called filetoview.
Hope these commands would be helpful.
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