Lesson 6. Working with the ShellIn this lesson, you will expand on the last lesson and learn how to create and delete data from your Unix system. In the last lesson we ended by talking about finding files within KDE. In this lesson, we focus primarily on the shell prompt and discuss how to manage data (files and directories) using the power of the Unix command line. We will also cover how to make directories and remove them. Why would you want to do this? Well, there are many reasons. If you work with a very large amount of data, just having it organized in directories with names that correspond to your work or organization can save you a lot of time when trying to find data. As well, you may want to create a directory to put data in to send to someone so that it is organized. You may also need to delete a directory once it has been emptied, to save space, and again, to stay organized.
File management at the shell prompt is not difficult. In this next part of the lesson, we will cover the fundamentals of working with files and folders within Unix at the command line. |