Question

Research Managing Files via the Command Line Interface (CLI)
commands, flags, and options that allow you to:
copy, delete, rename, and move files on Windows and Linux.

Answer 1

For Window ->

Copy file->  

step-1 press window + r

step-2 type cmd and press enter

step-3 cmd will be open

step-4 At the prompt, type copy c:\workfile.txt d: and press Enter to copy the file named “workfile.txt” on the root of C drive to D drive root.

Delete file ->

step-1 press window + r

step-2 type cmd and press enter

step-3 cmd will be open

step-4 write "del" before you file name which you want to delete and press enter

example (

del myfile.txt

)

Rename file ->

step-1 press window + r

step-2 type cmd and press enter

step-3 cmd will be open

step-4 syntax (

rename  file_path  new_name

)

example(

rename  d:\data\file1.doc file2.doc

)

Move file->

step-1 press window + r

step-2 type cmd and press enter

step-3 cmd will be open

step-4 you can move files using the move command. For example, if you want to move a file named "stats.doc" to the "c:\statistics" folder, you would type the following command, then press the Enter key.

move stats.doc c:\statistics

For LInux->

copy file->

The command used is cp. The cp command requires two attributes. One, the location of the file that you want to copy, and next, the location where you want to copy. Now here, I will copy a file named test3 to the directory testdir.

cp test3 testdir (simple file copying)

As seen in the output, the file has been copied, and the ls command proves that it’s in the testdir directory. Now again an important option:

cp -r
Yes, the function of the -r is the same here. It copies the files in a directory recursively. If you use plain cp to copy a directory that has files, the cp command will simply omit the directory and move on. So, a -r option is necessary to copy a folder.

cp -r testdir2 testdir (copynig directory)

Delete file->

simple delete a file by using rm "file name"

rm file_1.txt

If the file is not in the current working directory, provide a path to the file’s location

rm ./path/to/the/file/file_1.txt

You can pass more than one filename to rm. Doing so deletes all of the specified files

rm file_2.txt file_3.txt

Rename file->

To use mv to rename a file type mv, a space, the name of the file, a space, and the new name you wish the file to have. Then press Enter.

You can use ls to check the file has been renamed.

mv oldfile.txt newfile.txt

ls *.txt

Move file->

In Linux, using the command shell, you can move files or directories with the mv command. For example, if you wanted to move a file named "myfile.txt" to the folder named "backup," you would type the following command.

mv myfile.txt backup