The Linux Help and Tutorial Thread

[PoppaGeek]

Added directory navigation and identification commands to first post. cd and pwd


The command to delete a file is rm. There is no undelete. If you have a file named test in your home directory and you type rm test it is gone. Period. Unless there is an important reason to permanently delete the file just rename it using the mv command.

To rename file test.cfg to test.cfg.backup
mv test.cfg test.cfg.backup