Linux Administration/Commands/File Management

This lesson covers file management CompTIA Linux+ Certification.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the file management portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Perform basic file management
  • Copy, move and remove files and directories individually
  • Copy multiple files and directories recursively
  • Remove files and directories recursively
  • Use simple and advanced wildcard specifications in commands
  • Use find to locate and act on files based on type, size or time
  • Usage of tar, cpio and dd
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • cp
    • rsync
    • find
    • mkdir
    • mv
    • ls
    • rm
    • rmdir
    • touch
    • tar
    • cpio
    • dd
    • file
    • Compression utilities: gzip, gunzip, bzip2 (pbzip2) and xz
    • file globbing
    • du

Readings

1. Wikipedia: File system

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: File and directory management

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