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CHAPTER 7
File Management

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS of working in the Linux command line interface is handling files and directories. Just about every administrative task you perform on your Linux system requires working with some type of file. This chapter dives into the topic of handling files and directories from the Linux command line.

The chapter first discusses how Linux handles files and directories using the virtual directory and some of the rules you’ll need to follow when naming files and directories on your Linux system. After that it shows the command line commands you’ll need to become familiar with to work with files and directories, such as listing, copying, moving, and deleting them.

The chapter next shows how to use the popular commands to find files on Linux systems. There are several different commands that you can use, each one with slightly different features. It finishes by discussing the Linux file and archiving process, which allows you to compress files and directories into a single archive file to make distributing and storing files much easier.