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268 Managing Files and Directories

If you want to move a ﬁle out of your home directory and into another directory, you would type:

mv sneakers.txt tigger

or, mv sneakers.txt /home/billy /home/billy/tigger using absolute pathnames.

17.5.3 Renaming Files

Actually, we’ve already covered half of renaming, because when you copy or move ﬁles, you can also

rename.

To copy the ﬁle sneakers.txt from our login directory to our tigger subdirectory, just type:

cp sneakers.txt tigger

To copy and rename that ﬁle from sneakers.txt to piglet.txt,type:

cp sneakers.txt tigger/piglet.txt

To move and rename the ﬁle, just substitute mv for cp in the above example.

If you cd to tigger and use ls,you’ll see the ﬁle piglet.txt.

If you just want to rename the ﬁle and keep its location, just mv in your current directory:

mv sneakers.txt piglet.txt

17.5.4 Deleting Files and Directories

We talked about creating ﬁles with the touch command and by using redirection in Chapter 16 on

page 217. And we created the directory tigger using mkdir.

But we haven’t discussed how to delete ﬁles and directories.

Deleting ﬁles and directories with the rm command (man rm) is a straightforward process.

Let’s take our new ﬁle piglet.txt, and delete it from the tigger directory with the rm command:

rm piglet.txt

What happens if we didn’t really want to get rid of it? Too late! Again, that’swherethe-i (interac-

tive) option comes in handy, because with it, we have the chance to think about whether we really

want to toss the ﬁle.

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