A Quick Introduction to Unix/exercises3

Deleting Files

Redirection

Deleting Files

Redirection

Task One

1 What is the directory indicated by ..

	The current directory
	The home directory
	The directory above the current directory

2 What is a path?

	A way to traverse a tree
	A route through a UNIX file system
	A garden feature

Task Two

Move to the directory ~/unixstuff. Create a backup of your science.txt file by copying it to a file called science.bak and moving it to the archive directory you created above.

What commands do you need to use to achieve this task?

% cd ~/unixstuff
% cp science.txt science.bak
% mv science.bak archive

Task Three

Create a directory called tempstuff using mkdir. Copy science.txt to tempstuff. Remove the directory tempstuff. What happens? Can you explain why?