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You can create new directories, files, and links from your desktop using Konqueror. In Konqueror, navigate to the directory that is to house your new item. Click Edit and select Create New. A menu of items you can create is opened, including:
Names can be up to 255 characters. Linux accepts almost any character in a filename, but some characters have a special meaning to the Linux shell and complicate your life when used in a filename. It's best to use only letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, and dots in filenames. Upper- and lowercase letters are not the same (file1 is not File1). Filenames don't need to have an extension, although many applications use specific extensions. Technically, the dot is just another character, so you could name a file something like file.test.mine. Special system files have names that begin with a dot, so don't use a dot to begin filenames for other types of files. You can create a directory in any directory where you have write permission using the command line mkdir command: mkdir path/dirname If your path includes directories that don't yet exist, you can create them in one command with the -p option, as follows: mkdir -p /usr/local/newparent/mydir If newparent doesn't exist, it's created, then mydir is created inside newparent. Files can be created by applications, such as a word processor. File editors create and edit plain text files, as Notepad does on Windows. Links can be created at the command line using the ln command (see Appendix A). |
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