The-Unix-Shell-Teaching-Notes

3.4 Moving and Copying

What is the output of the closing ls command in the sequence shown below?

 $ pwd

 /Users/jamie/data

 $ ls

 proteins.dat

 $ mkdir recombined
 $ mv proteins.dat recombined/
 $ cp recombined/proteins.dat ../proteins-saved.dat
 $ ls

1. proteins-saved.dat recombined
2. recombined
3. proteins.dat recombined
4. proteins-saved.dat

Solution

2.
Starting in the `/Users/jamie/data` directory
$ mkdir recombined ----> create new folder
$ mv proteins.dat recombined/ -----> move proteins.dat to the new folder
$ cp recombined/proteins.dat ../proteins-saved.dat -----> copies this file to the parent directory of our current location

Episode 3 Exercise 5