From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Remove files and directories

Remove files and directories

From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Remove files and directories

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- [Instructor] We have a couple of commands dedicated to removing files and directories namely rm and rmdir. You may want to note that on the command line Linux doesn't have a recycle bin. If you delete a file it is for all practical purposes deleted be careful recovering files requires extra work. Let's create a directory for this exercise and CD into it in a terminal type in mkdir rmexercise and hit Enter then type in cd rmexercise and hit Enter again. You can verify your path by typing in PWD. Now that we have a directory and we've changed into it let's create some files, type in mkdir dir{1,2} and hit enter. I've used brace expansion to create two directories called dir1 and dir2 you can verify this by typing in LS. Now let's type in touch dir1/file1.txt this will create a file inside the directory named dir1. Let's create a couple more files by typing in touch file{a,b,c,d}.txt and hit enter. We can verify our…

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