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With the terminal you can create, copy, move, and delete files and directories.  The following are the most important commands to do this.
 
* cd - change directory
 
* mkdir - make a new directory
 
* ls - list directory contents
 
* cp - copy files
 
* rm - remove files (be careful, there is no recycle bin or trash - once you delete, it's gone)
 
* rmdir - remove directory
 
* nano - simple text editor
 
And here is a transcript of the use of these commands on the CS server.
 
<pre>
 
cs299@cs:~> pwd
 
/u1/class/cs299
 
cs299@cs:~> mkdir new-dir1
 
cs299@cs:~> mkdir new-dir2
 
cs299@cs:~> nano hello.txt
 
cs299@cs:~> ls
 
bin/  hello.txt  new-dir1/  new-dir2/  proto/
 
cs299@cs:~> cp hello.txt new-dir1
 
cs299@cs:~> cp hello.txt new-dir2/hello2.txt
 
cs299@cs:~> ls new-dir1
 
hello.txt
 
cs299@cs:~> ls new-dir2
 
hello2.txt
 
cs299@cs:~> mv new-dir2 new-dir3
 
cs299@cs:~> ls
 
bin/  hello.txt  new-dir1/  new-dir3/  proto/
 
cs299@cs:~> rm hello.txt
 
cs299@cs:~> ls
 
bin/  new-dir1/  new-dir3/  proto/
 
cs299@cs:~> rmdir new-dir3
 
rmdir: failed to remove 'new-dir3': Directory not empty
 
cs299@cs:~> rm new-dir3/hello2.txt
 
cs299@cs:~> rmdir new-dir3
 
cs299@cs:~> ls
 
bin/  new-dir1/  proto/
 
</pre>
 

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