Linux Basic Commands for Files

This blog explains some basic Linux commands to make, copy, rename files as well as make and remove directories.

echo “test” > file.txt

The command above will create a text file named ‘file’ with a word ‘test’ as its content. This command can also be used to create empty file such as,

echo > file.txt

2. Copy and rename the file

To copy file in Linux, we can use cp command. For instance,

cp file.txt file2.txt

The command above will create file2.txt, then copy the content from file.txt to that file. In other words this let us copy the first file as well as renaming the copied file.

3. Create directory and move a file to the new directory

To create a directory, we can use mkdir command and type the directory name as well.

mkdir directory2

The command above will create a new directory named ‘directory2’. Then, to move a file to another directory, we can use mv command. The program below will move file2.txt to directory2.

mv file2.txt directory2

4. Remove directory

Supposed the first directory is named ‘directory1’ and we want to remove it, the command below will do the work.

rmdir directory1

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