linux-command-02.md

2️⃣ File Operations

These commands are used to create, copy, move, and delete files and directories.

• touch file.txt → Creates a new empty file named file.txt.

• mkdir MyFolder → Creates a new directory named MyFolder.

• cp file1.txt file2.txt → Copies the contents of file1.txt to a new file named file2.txt.

• mv old.txt new.txt → Renames the file old.txt to new.txt. It can also be used to move a file to a different directory: mv file.txt /path/to/new/directory/.

• rm file.txt → Deletes the file named file.txt. Use with caution!

• rm -r foldername → Deletes the directory named foldername and all its contents (files and subdirectories). Use with extreme caution! The -r flag stands for recursive.

📌 Example:

Create a project folder, add a Python file, copy it, rename the copy, and then delete the original file:

mkdir Projects
cd Projects
touch main.py
cp main.py backup.py
mv backup.py old_main.py
rm main.py