Create, Delate, Move, Copy Directories and files

Create, Delate, Move, Copy Directories and files

1. To create a new directory use the mkdir command

   • -m option to specify permissions on the new directory
   • -p option to create any necessary parentdirectories without generating errors. This means you could create a directory called /files/data even if the /files directory did not exist
   • -v option to get verbose output from the mkdir command

2. To remove a directory use the rmdir command

   • -p option to remove the specified directory's parents
   • -R only use with thr rm command and remove recursively the contents of a specified directory including subdirectories
   • --ignore-fail-on-non-empty this force command to delet the directory anyway, and you lose the files it contained

3. cp command to copy files cp [opc] source_file|source_dir target

   • -f option to force copy operation, even if it means overwriting exixting files, non confirmation
   • -i option to run the copy operation in interactive mode. You have to confirm in every copy or overwrite
   • -p option to run copy operation in preserve mode, preserves group, ID's, file flags, and modification times

4. mv command move files and directories from one location to another mv [opc] source_file|source_dir target

   • -f option to force copy operation, even if it means overwriting exixting files, non confirmation
   • -i option to run the copy operation in interactive mode. You have to confirm in every copy or overwrite

5. mvdir to move directories mvdir source_dir target

6. tar command can create archives, update their contents, and extract files from them

   • -A to append the contents of a tarfile to the end of another. only its contents move
   • -c To create a new tarfile and write files to it
   • -d to ascertain the difference between files in a tarfile and the matching data structure still on disk
   • -r to append files to the end of an existing tarfile
   • -t to list the entirecontents of a tarfile. If you specify a filename argument with t, tar lists only those files you're looking for
   • -u to update the contents of a tarfile if the files it is based on have been modified since the tarfile was created
   • -x to extract all of the files from a tarfile if you specify a filename argument with -x, tar extracts only those files you're looking for
   • Compress the contents o an archive by passing the tar
     • -y option to filter the archive through the bzip2 command
     • -z option to filter the archive through the gzip command
     • -Z option to filter the archive through the compress command