Create Files and Directories

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We will loosely follow the Software Carpentry Working with Files and Directories lesson from The Unix Shell

Let’s work through that lesson together…

Summary

We learned the following commands:

• mkdir : make a directory

• nano : a basic text editor

• touch : update a file’s timestamp (and create an empty file if it does not exist)

• mv : move a file or directory

• cp : copy a file or directory

• rm : remove a file (and/or directory if done recursively)

We also learned about wildcards:

• * matches multiple (or 0) characters

• ? matches a single character

Exercises

try it…

From your home directory, create a directory / file structure that looks like:

project
├── code
├── data
│   ├── experiment-01.txt
│   ├── experiment-02.txt
│   └── experiment-03.txt
└── results