Archive for March 28th, 2008

Browse The File System

March 28, 2008

cd changes derectories

cd 

To your home directory

cd ..

To your home directory

cd -

To your previous working directory

Listing Directory Contents

ls -a 

include hidden files

ls -l

long listing style

ls -R

Recurse through directories

Copying Files & Directories

cp -i source destination

interactive(ask before overwriting file)

cp -R source destination

recursive (recursively copy an entire directory tree)

Creating & Removing Files

touch 

create empty file or update filetimestamps

rm -i 

interactive(ask before removing [...]