Manipulating
files
Format
cp [options] source-file destination-file
cp [options] source-file-list destination-directory
Summary
The program has two modes. You can copy one file into another.
Or copy a file from one place to another.
You can use wildcards * and ?.
Options
-r Copies directories recursively. With
this i mean that all files including subdirectories and
their content given by source-file-list will be copied to
the destination directory.
Format
df [options] [filesystem-list]
Summary
If you don't specify the filesystem-list, df will list the
amount of available disk space on all mounted filesystems
Options
-t type, causes df to display information about the type
of the filesystems of the specifies type.
Format
du [directory-list]
Summary
Lists the diskspace used by the directory and its contents
specified by the directory-list argument
Format
find directory expression
Summary
directory specifies the directory where you want the search
to start. Find will search all directories recursively.
expression is the search argument. These are the most common
used:
Search arguments
-name filename, searches for the
given filename
-user name, list all files who are
owned by the given users
-size +/-n, lists all files with
size smaller/greater than n
Format
ln [option] existing-file new-link
Summary
Creates a hard link to the file specified by existing-file
with the name given by the new-link argument. A hard link
to a file is indistinguishable from the original. A hard
link has to be on the same filesystem as the original file.
A symbolic link may be across filesystems and existing file
and new-link may be directories as well as files.
Options
-s creates a symbolic link instead
Format
locate pattern
Summary
Lists all files in filedatabase that match the given pattern.
This utility depends on a database file with al list of
all files on your filesystem. Use the updatedb utility to
update your database (caution, this takes a while)
Example
#locate hepp
This search would find all files on you system that contain
hepp. It would find heppgr, tghepp and tyheppl.
Format
mkdir [options] directory-list
Summary
Creates a new directory. If you write #mkdir test, mkdir
creates a new directory with the name "test" in
the current directory.
If you want mkdir to make a directory in another directory,
you must specify the whole directory path.
Options
-p parent, if the parent directory of the directory you
are creating does not exist, mkdir will create it for you.
Format
mv [options] source-path destination-path
Summary
Copies the the files specified in source-path to destination
path and then deletes the original files.
You can use wildcards * and ?.
Format
rm [options] file-list
Summary
This utility removes files from your system. You can use
wildcards * and ?.
Note: when you delete a file it is not possible to recover
it.
Options
-r recursive, this option makes
rm remove the specified directory and all of its contents.
(MS USERS: Just like deltree) BE CAREFUL WITH THIS COMMAND!!
-f force, this option makes rm delete
files without asking you if you really want to. Nice if
you want to delete directories.
Format
rmdir directory-list
Summary
Removes all directories specified by directory-list.
Note: The directories you want to delete must be empty.
If they are not, mkdir will fail. If you want to delete
a directory together with its contents use rm.
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