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The ‘*’ acts as a wildcard, and includes anything starting with the string that precedes it. We then delete everything named ‘testing*’, which includes these two files. In the example below, we create two new empty files called ‘testing2’ and ‘testing3’. This would be more useful when deleting many files at once. For obvious reasons, you’ll want to be careful with this option. If you’re absolutely sure that you want to remove the file in one command without being prompted to confirm, you can use the ‘-f’ command to force the action. When using the ‘rm’ command, by default we’re prompted to confirm removal of the file by pressing the ‘y’ key for yes, followed by enter. Rm: remove regular empty file ‘testing’? y In this example, we’ll delete the ‘testing’ file that we created in /root/testing earlier. The ‘rm’ command, short for remove, is used to delete files or directories.

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Now that we know how to create files and directories, how do we delete them? Delete Files The ‘-R’ flag from ‘ls’ will list all directories within recursively. In the example below, we can create the sub directory structure /root/directory/one/two/three in one step: directory]# mkdir -p one/two/threeĭrwxr-xr-x. We can also use the ‘mkdir’ command with the ‘-p’ flag to create parent directories if they do not already exist. We can now enter it and use it to store content in.

This will create a new directory (or folder) called ‘directory’ in the current working directory. The most simple way is with the ‘mkdir’ command, simply specify the name of the directory to create afterwards. Create Directoriesĭirectories (also known as folders in Windows) can also be created with a number of different techniques. The file will not actually be created until you save the file from within the vim editor though. Other tools will create new files too, for instance “vim testing” will open the vim text editor and allow you to edit a file called ‘testing’. We have confirmed that our new ‘hello’ file contains the text ‘hello’. However we can also use the ‘>’ redirection, as covered in another post, to redirect the output to a new file that we specify: ~]# echo 'hello' > hello By default, the ‘echo’ command will print out the text that we feed it, as shown below: ~]# echo 'hello' We can also define the specific location where the file should be created: ~]# touch /root/somewhere/fileĪnother example is using the ‘echo’ command.

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The touch command can also be used on an existing file or directory, the act of ‘touching’ it will update the last modified time stamp. You can print out the current working directory with the ‘pwd’ command. My current session is within the root user’s home directory, /root/, so the file has therefore been created at /root/testing in this example. This will create an empty file (we can see above the file size is listed as 0, just before the time stamp) called ‘testing’ in the current working directory. You simply specify ‘touch’ followed by the name of the file that you want to create. My favourite way to create a quick test file is with the ‘touch’ command.

There are a number of ways to create files within Linux. Let’s start with file creation Create Files In these examples we will cover the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) objective “Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories”.