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Linux Essentials - Second Edition
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If you’ve used Windows or Mac OS X, chances are that you’ve used a GUI file manager to manipulate files. Such tools are available in Linux, as noted in Chapter 4, “Using Common Linux Programs,” and you can certainly use a file manager for many common tasks. Linux’s text-mode shells, such as Bash, provide simple but powerful tools for manipulating files too. These tools can simplify some tasks, such as working with all files with names that include the string invoice. Thus you should be familiar with these text-mode commands.
To begin this task, we describe some ways that you can create files. With files created, you can copy them from one location to another. You also may sometimes want to move or rename files. Linux enables you to create links, which are ways to refer to the same file by multiple names. If you never want to use a file again, you can delete it. Wildcards provide the means to refer to many files by using a compact...
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