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Since linux is leet, and commandline is that too, I made a little overview of useful commands.
Navigating
Opening the commandline shouldn't be a problem. Open it.
You are probably in your /home/user/ directory. (If you don't know in which directory you are, type pwd) Now type 'ls'.
You'll get a list of files, where directories are blue, executables are green etc.
You now know your first command ^^
You want to list other dirs too ofcourse. If you want to navigate to another directory, you use the cd command, which stands for change-dir. You just listed the files in your directory, so you know which dirs you have. Pick one, Desktop for example, and type cd Desktop. You're in /home/user/Desktop now :thumbup:. If you want to go back, one directory up, you use cd ..
.. will get you to /home/user.
Last, you can navigate directly to a directory by typing it. If you are in /usr/lib for example, you can go to /home/user directly by typing cd /home/user
You're now able to navigate through your filesystem with cmd ^^
File moving, copying, removing and creation.
You have a filesystem to create files on, so lets do so! To create a file called foo.txt, you type in touch foo.txt. If you want to create that file on another location, you can type in the full path, like touch /home/user/foo.txt
Or, if you want to create the file two dirs up from your current dir, you type
touch ../../foo.txt.
If you want a copy of foo.txt, you type in cp foo.txt bar.txt. A second file called bar.txt will be created, an exact copy from foo.txt. You can copy this to another location with cp foo.txt ../bar.txt, you can use cp /usr/lib/foo.txt /home/user/Desktop/. Note that I have not specified a filename, so the new file will be named like the original.
Removing works with the command rm. Type in rm foo.txt and foo.txt will be removed. Important note: There is no recycle bin in linux, so if you remove a file it will be permanently lost!
And last, moving. Moving works with mv. You can move like this:
mv /usr/lib/bar.txt /home/user/, and bar.txt will be moved to /home/user/.
You can also use mv foo.txt .., and you can give the file a new name:
mv foo.txt bar.txt. That's renaming too, you don't have a separated renaming command...
Creating and removing direcories
Note: You move a dir the same way a you move files.
You create a directory with mkdir dirname. You can specify a path, mkdir /home/user/dir for example.
You remove the dir and everything in it with rm -r dir
You create and remove a dir called foo like this:
mkdir foo
rm -r foo
:O That's it for now, I'll write about reading files and putting data in them later. Please post all typos you find ^^
Since linux is leet, and commandline is that too, I made a little overview of useful commands.
Navigating
Opening the commandline shouldn't be a problem. Open it.
You are probably in your /home/user/ directory. (If you don't know in which directory you are, type pwd) Now type 'ls'.
You'll get a list of files, where directories are blue, executables are green etc.
You now know your first command ^^
You want to list other dirs too ofcourse. If you want to navigate to another directory, you use the cd command, which stands for change-dir. You just listed the files in your directory, so you know which dirs you have. Pick one, Desktop for example, and type cd Desktop. You're in /home/user/Desktop now :thumbup:. If you want to go back, one directory up, you use cd ..
.. will get you to /home/user.
Last, you can navigate directly to a directory by typing it. If you are in /usr/lib for example, you can go to /home/user directly by typing cd /home/user
You're now able to navigate through your filesystem with cmd ^^
File moving, copying, removing and creation.
You have a filesystem to create files on, so lets do so! To create a file called foo.txt, you type in touch foo.txt. If you want to create that file on another location, you can type in the full path, like touch /home/user/foo.txt
Or, if you want to create the file two dirs up from your current dir, you type
touch ../../foo.txt.
If you want a copy of foo.txt, you type in cp foo.txt bar.txt. A second file called bar.txt will be created, an exact copy from foo.txt. You can copy this to another location with cp foo.txt ../bar.txt, you can use cp /usr/lib/foo.txt /home/user/Desktop/. Note that I have not specified a filename, so the new file will be named like the original.
Removing works with the command rm. Type in rm foo.txt and foo.txt will be removed. Important note: There is no recycle bin in linux, so if you remove a file it will be permanently lost!
And last, moving. Moving works with mv. You can move like this:
mv /usr/lib/bar.txt /home/user/, and bar.txt will be moved to /home/user/.
You can also use mv foo.txt .., and you can give the file a new name:
mv foo.txt bar.txt. That's renaming too, you don't have a separated renaming command...
Creating and removing direcories
Note: You move a dir the same way a you move files.
You create a directory with mkdir dirname. You can specify a path, mkdir /home/user/dir for example.
You remove the dir and everything in it with rm -r dir
You create and remove a dir called foo like this:
mkdir foo
rm -r foo
:O That's it for now, I'll write about reading files and putting data in them later. Please post all typos you find ^^
