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Linux Mint Essentials

Linux Mint Essentials

By : Jay LaCroix
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Linux Mint Essentials

Linux Mint Essentials

4.2 (10)
By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

A task-oriented look at Linux Mint, using actual real-world examples to stimulate learning. Each topic is presented in an easy-to-follow order, with hands-on activities to reinforce the content. If you are starting out with Linux from a different platform or are well versed with Linux Mint and want a guide that shows you how to exploit certain functionality, this book is for you. No previous Linux experience is assumed.
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Managing files


Now that you have an understanding of how to navigate the filesystem, it's time to take a look at some basic file management. After all, what good is accessing a terminal if you don't know how to create, delete, move, and rename files and directories? Once you learn the basics of navigating the filesystem, the rest will be easy. File management in the Linux Shell is very logical but also very important to learn. Take some time to go through the following examples to manage some files on your system.

First, let's take a look at creating a file. There is more than one way to do this, but the following command line accomplishes the goal very easily:

touch myfile

With the touch command, we created a new file named myfile. The touch command will create a file in your working directory. Thus, if your working directory was your home directory, you'll now have a file called myfile in that directory.

However, the file that it created isn't very useful, is it? In fact, the file is completely...

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