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Working With Files and Directories

Renaming Files

Suppose that you created a plain-text file in your current directory to contain a list of the statistical tests you will need to do to analyze your data, and named it statstics.txt. After creating and saving this file you realize you misspelled the filename!

You want to correct the mistake, which of the following commands could you use to do so?

cp statstics.txt statistics.txt

mv statstics.txt statistics.txt

mv statstics.txt .

cp statstics.txt .

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Introduction

Terminal Exercises

Navigating Files and Directories

Absolute vs relative paths

Absolute vs relative paths

Ls reading comprehension

Working With Files and Directories

Moving Files to a new folder

Renaming Files

Moving and Copying

List filenames matching a pattern

Pipes and Filters

Appending data

Piping commands together

Pipe construction

Which pipe?

Removing unneeded files

Loops

Write your own loop

Limiting sets of files

Saving to a file in a loop

Saving to a file in a loop - part 2

Shell Scripts

List unique species

Variables in shell scripts

Longest file with a given extension

Finding Things

Using grep

Tracking a species

Little women

Matching and subtracting

The end

The end