| cd
| change to your home directory
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| cd 496
| change to a sub directory named 496 (if it is in your current directory)
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| cd ~/496
| change to a sub directory named 496 which is in your home directory
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| cd ~/496/.Data
| change to a sub directory named .Data which is in 496 which is in your home directory
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| cd ..
| change to the parent directory of your current directory
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| ls
| list the contents of the current directory
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| ls -a
| list all of the contents of the current directory (including invisible files and directories)
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| ls -F
| list the contents of the current directory (with a / after the name of a directory)
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| mkdir 496
| make a directory called 496
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| cp oldname newname
| copy the file oldname to newname in the same directory
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| copy the file oldname to newname in a different directory as with mv below
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| emacs filename
| use the editor emacs to edit the file filename in the current directory (it is created if it does not exist)
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| more filename
| display the contents of filename on the screen
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| mv oldname newname
| move the file oldname to newname (this just renames the file)
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| mv oldname ../
| move the file oldname to its parent directory (keeping the same name)
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| mv oldname ../newname
| move the file oldname to its parent directory and rename it newname
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| mv oldname ../newname
| move the file oldname to its parent directory and rename it newname
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| mv oldname ~/newname
| move the file oldname to your home directory and rename it newname
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| touch .Audit
| create an empty file named .Audit in the current directory
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