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Unix/Linux Command Reference: File Commands

This document provides a reference to common Unix/Linux file commands, listing commands for directory listing, changing directories, showing the current working directory, creating and deleting directories, viewing file contents, copying and moving files, and more. It outlines 20 commands for tasks like formatted listing, sorting listings by time, placing standard input into a file, outputting the first/last lines of a file, creating/updating files, deleting files and directories with both normal and force options, and renaming or moving files.

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Unix/Linux Command Reference: File Commands

This document provides a reference to common Unix/Linux file commands, listing commands for directory listing, changing directories, showing the current working directory, creating and deleting directories, viewing file contents, copying and moving files, and more. It outlines 20 commands for tasks like formatted listing, sorting listings by time, placing standard input into a file, outputting the first/last lines of a file, creating/updating files, deleting files and directories with both normal and force options, and renaming or moving files.

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File Commands
1. ls Directory listing
2. ls -al Formatted listing with hidden files
3. ls -lt Sorting the Formatted listing by time modification
4. cd dir Change directory to dir
5. cd Change to home directory
6. pwd Show current working directory
7. mkdir dir Creating a directory dir
8. cat >file Places the standard input into the file
9. more file Output the contents of the file
10. head file Output the first 10 lines of the file
11. tail file Output the last 10 lines of the file
12. tail -f file Output the contents of file as it grows,starting with
the last 10 lines
13. touch file Create or update file
14. rm file Deleting the file
15. rm -r dir Deleting the directory
16. rm -f file Force to remove the file
17. rm -rf dir Force to remove the directory dir
18. cp file1 file2 Copy the contents of file1 to file2
19. cp -r dir1 dir2 Copy dir1 to dir2;create dir2 if not present
20. mv file1 file2 Rename or move file1 to file2,if file2 is an existing
directory

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