Managing files in class challenge activities

Making Directories and Files: MKDIR & TOUCH

Quick overview:

  • mkdir is the command we use for making directories
  • touch is the command we generally use for creating empty files (there are other ways but this is the simplest)
  1. In your home directory, create a directory called projectx
  2. Inside projectx, create 3 directories called data, logs, and code
  3. Inside the code directory, create an empty file called index.html
  4. Inside the data directory, create an empty file called data.json
  5. Inside the logs directory, create an empty file called access.log

Run the command tree ~/projectx and take a screenshot of your terminal

RM

Quick overview:

  • rm is the command we use for removing files
  • rmdir is the command we use for removing EMPTY directories
  • rm -r is the command we use to remove files and NON-EMPTY directories
  1. Remove the following files without using the cd command:
    index.html, data.json, and access.log
  2. Remove the following directories:
    code and projectx

Take a screenshot of your terminal showing the rm commands you used

MV

Getting the required files

  1. Create a directory called homework-files in your ~/Documents directory.
  2. Change your current working directory to ~/Downloads
  3. Download the following files from the command line using wget. The wget command only requires the file’s URL and saves the file to your current directory. 
wget https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Linux-for-workgroups-boot.jpg \
    https://ontheline.trincoll.edu/images/bookdown/sample-local-pdf.pdf \
    https://example-files.online-convert.com/document/txt/example.txt

Moving files

  1. Move the 3 files you downloaded earlier to the homework-files directory.
  2. Move the homework-files directory to the ~/Downloads directory.

Renaming files

  1. Rename the files you downloaded earlier in the following manner:
Linux-for-workgroups-boot.jpg -> logo.jpg
sample-local-pdf.pdf -> report.pdf
example.txt -> notes.txt
  1. Rename the directory homework-files to submission and at the same time, move it to the ~/Documents directory

Run the command tree ~/Documents/submission and take a screenshot of your terminal

CP

  1. Change your current working directory to ~/Downloads and download the following files using wget:
wget https://cis106.com/assets/change_font.gif \
    https://cis106.com/assets/example-logo.png \
    https://cis106.com/assets/shopping.txt
  1. Create a directory in ~/Documents called new-files
  2. Copy the files you downloaded earlier to the new-files directory
  3. Copy the new-files directory to the ~/Pictures directory.
  4. List both copies of new-files

Take a screenshot of your terminal