Hey Dev community! 😆

After weeks of exams and dealing with imposter syndrome, I am back with another short article on 'file commands' in Linux. These are pretty useful so take a look. 🤠

1. cd 💻

The 'cd' command moves you into any directory you want. For example, if I have files located in the 'Documents' directory, this is the command I would run:

cd Documents

and this would move me to that directory.

2. ls 💻

The 'ls' command lists everything that is in that directory. To list everything in the directory, run this command:

ls -l

3. cat 💻

the 'cat' commands displays what is inside a file. Simply run this command:

cat (name of file)

The cat command also can do other things. 👇

🎯 cat > filename

Using this command, you can also create a file.

What I did below was I created the file, typed out what I needed to, then viewed the file which displayed the text I had previously written.

🎯 cat testfile1 testfile2>testfile4

Using this command, you can also create 1 new file by putting two together by doing this command:

What I did was I used test1, and test2, and merged that into a new file called test4.

4. cp 💻

The 'cp' commands copies files from one directory to another

What I did below was I copied the Goku image from the pictures directory to the example directory, used 'cd' to move into the example directory, and did ls -l to view if the picture successfully copied.

5. mv 💻

The 'mv' command is typically for moving files but it can also be used to rename files as well.

🎯 mv (to move)

To move a file into a directory, run this command:

mv (filename) (directory)

What I did below was I moved test1 from Documents to example1, I went to example1, and then listed the files to confirm if it successfully moved.

🎯 mv (to rename)

To rename a file, run this command:

mv (filename) (newfilename)

Staying in the example1 directory, I changed the name to 'newname' and then listed the files to confirm it's been changed.

6. mdkir 💻

The 'mkdir' command is what you will use almost daily. This command is used to make directories.

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7. grep 💻

'grep' is used to search for certain words in a text. To do this, run the command

grep (word) (file name)

8. touch 💻

'touch' is another command you can use to create a file.

9. rm

'rm' is used to delete directories or anything within them. Always be careful with this command because there is no going back once you remove something. To delete, run this command:

rm -r (name of directory or file)

10. head

'head' is used to view the first lines of a text file. You can change how many lines you want to view as well.

head -n (# of lines) (filename)

and that is it for today's article

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