Working with Files and Folders — beginner-friendly Linux terminal skills for Linux beginners
Welcome back! In Chapter 2, you learned how to move around the Linux filesystem — peeking into directories, jumping between folders, and finding your way home with ~. You've been reading the map.
In this chapter, you'll work through Creating Files with touch • Creating Directories with mkdir • Copying Files and Directories with cp • Moving and Renaming with mv with a calm, beginner-first pace.
What you'll learn:
Explore Creating Files with touch
Explore Creating Directories with mkdir
Explore Copying Files and Directories with cp
Explore Moving and Renaming with mv
Explore Removing Files and Directories with rm
Commands you'll meet: beginner-friendly Linux terminal skills.
Welcome back! In Chapter 2, you learned how to move around the Linux filesystem — peeking into directories, jumping between folders, and finding your way home with ~. You've been reading the map.
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome
00:44 Creating Files
01:53 Creating Folders
02:52 Copying
03:37 Moving and Renaming
04:23 Removing Safely
05:50 Wildcards
07:31 Hidden Files and Tree
08:36 Milestone Project
10:33 Chapter Summary
11:03 Outro
Next up: Chapter 4 — Reading and Editing Text.