Listing, creating, copying, and moving files, directories, links, and hard links

It is important to know how to manage files and directories in a system from the command line. It will serve as the basis for managing and copying important data, such as configuration files or data files.

Directories

Let’s start by creating a directory to keep some working files. We can do so by running mkdir, short for “make directory”:

[user@rhel-instance ~]$ mkdir mydir
[user@rhel-instance ~]$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 2 user user 6 Feb 13 19:53 mydir

Folders can be deleted with the rmdir command, short for “remove directory”:

[user@rhel-instance ~]$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 2 user user 6 Feb 13 19:53 mydir
[user@rhel-instance ~]$ mkdir deleteme
[user@rhel-instance ~]$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 2 user user 6 Feb 13 20:15 deleteme
drwxrwxr-x. 2 user user 6 Feb 13 19:53 mydir
[user@rhel-instance ~]$ rmdir deleteme
[user@rhel-instance ~]$ ls -l
total...