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GNU Linux Command Line Basics – Creating, Moving and Manipulating Directories

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http://linux.bihlman.com – By Rand Whitehall In the Linux command line shell, moving around from directory to directory, adding new directories, and deleting old directories is easy once you know the proper commands. Again, with Linux, you are limited only by your brain! If you know all the commands, then you weild great power. But if you know only a few commands, it’s like you are standing in the airport in Tokyo and want to know where the bathroom is, but only know how to say hi and bye in Japanese. Let’s get to it. Open a shell (or terminal) and type each line below followed by enter: cd pwd You should be (General)

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if one executes the following two commands in one line, as follows,

rm -rf dir ; cp -r dir2 dir

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I want to list all the files in a directory recursively. I am storing this output in a file that I will later iterate through and use each line as an argument in another command.

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