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Moving Information

All of these fancy directories are very nice, but they really don't help unless you have some place to store you data. The Unix Gods  saw this problem, and they fixed it by giving the users ``files''.  We will learn more about creating and editing files in the next few chapters.

     

The primary commands for manipulating files under Unix are cp  , mv  , and rm  . Respectively, they stand for copy, move, and remove.





Ross Biro
Thu May 25 10:45:54 PDT 1995