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Manipulating directories - Linux Tutorial
From the course: LPI Linux Essentials (010-160) Cert Prep
Manipulating directories
- Now you may think of directories as folders because most graphical user interface file managers are going to represent these directories by using a file folder icon. Naturally, Linux provides that text based command line environment as well, and you can manipulate these directories from within it. These include directory specific commands to create and delete these directories, as well as some file manipulation commands that we discussed in our earlier lessons. The first one we're going to talk about here is the make directory command, which is mkdir. This is used to create a new directory. You can do this by typing mkdir, and then the name of the directory you want to create. For example, if I use mkdir newfolder, this will create a new directory called newfolder. This is similar to using the right click mouse button and then selecting newfolder within your Windows desktop environment. Now if you want to learn a lot…
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Introduction to Linux filesystem3m 14s
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Linux filesystem key features4m 48s
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Navigating files and directories5m 3s
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File creation and management3m 22s
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Creating links2m 5s
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Wildcards and case sensitivity5m 23s
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Manipulating directories3m 40s
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Manipulating files and directories16m 25s
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