Linux Hands-On Lab - Creating a Directory Structure in Linux
Linux Learning Path for Cloud and DevOps Engineers
📝Introduction
This post explains how a Linux system administrator needs to know how to create files and folders on a computer. This lab will assist you in creating a new directory structure and adding new files to this structure.
📝Log in to the AWS Management Console
Using your credentials, make sure you're using the right Region. In my case, I am using AWS as my cloud provider and chose us-east-1. However, you can choose any cloud provider and create your Linux Server VM (I am using a CentOS 7 distro) for this hands-on lab.
📌Note: You must create the AWS Access Key and AWS Secret Access Key and configure the AWS CLI in the terminal to use it.
You can use link1 and link2 for it.
📝Create the directory structure with Hand or Bash expansion commands
By Hand:
mkdir -p Projects/test1
mkdir Projects/test2
mkdir Projects/test3
By Bash expansion:
It's much less typing. This command makes all three directories in one pass:
mkdir -p Projects/{test1,test2,test3}
📝Create the Subdirectories structure with Hand or Bash expansion commands
By Hand:
mkdir Projects/test1/test1.1
mkdir Projects/test2/test2.1
mkdir Projects/test3/test3.1
By Bash expansion:
mkdir Projects/test1/{test1.1,1.2}
mkdir Projects/test3/{test3.1,3.2}
OR
mkdir Projects/test2/test2.1
📝Create Some Empty Files
To create a couple of empty text files we'll do it with the touch command:
touch Projects/test1/test1.1/test1.txt
touch Projects/test3/3.2/test3.txt
📝Rename a Subdirectory
We can do that easily with the mv command:
mv Projects/test1/1.2 Projects/test1/test1.2
📌Note - At the end of each hands-on Lab, always clean up all the resources previously created to avoid being charged if you used a Cloud Provider to provision them.
Congratulations — you have completed this hands-on lab covering the basics of creating files and folders on a Linux computer.
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