Linux Guide/File Manipulation

PreviousUpNext ls lists all files and directories in the current directory. mv <file> <to> move <file> to destination <to>. rm <file> remove <file>. cd <dir> change the current directory to <dir>. cat <file> concatenate files and show them on standard output, text files work best:) find [path...] [expression] search for files in the given path xargs <command> takes input from stdin and formats it as the arguments to another program. For instance, to delete all files with an ending ~, write find . -name "*~" | xargs rm Copy file from remote system (rsync) rsync -ave ssh <remote_server>:<syntaxhighlight_path> <dest_dir> Example: rsync -ave ssh root@192.168.1.252:/tmp/myfile .