Revisiting Paths

Here's a video on using the command line to navigate the file system or the paths. This is not a transcript, but in this video, I use commands like:

• cd to change directories
  • cd - (cd dash) to change to the previous working directory
  • cd ~ (cd tilde) to change to the home directory
  • cd .. (cd dot dot) to change to the directory up one level
• mkdir -p to make multiple directories
• rm to remove files
  • rm ../file.txt to remove a file up one level
  • rm ~/file.txt to remove a file in my home directory
  • rm ~/test0/test1/test2/file.txt to remove a file nested in multiple sub-directories
• cp to copy files
  • cp file.txt ../../../ to copy a file multiple directories up from current position
  • cp bin/file.txt documents/file.txt to copy a file in my bin directory to my documents directory
• mv to move or rename a file
  • mv file.txt test0/test1/test2/ to move a file in my home directory to the nested directories
  • mv bin/file.txt documents/file.txt to move a file from my bin directory to my documents directory
• tree -d to visualize the directory structure from my current directory
• find . -name "file.txt" to search for a file in my directories that's named "file.txt"

I hope this video helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.