When specifying them as arguments to a command. Wild cards provide a concise way of referencing multiple files Includes the whole path to file1 and directory1, it no longer is relative to This command will do the same thing regardless of where we are because it For cp /home/faculty/ifinlay/file1 /home/faculty/ifinlay/directory1 With a /, and specify the whole location from the root.
In order for a command to mean the same thing regardless of our location, So it's important to beĪware of where you are! If you notice, the command prompt shows your presentĭirectory (between the : and $) because it's so important. This demonstrates an important point which is that the meaning of commandsĭepends on which directory we are currently in. That file1 and directory1 are up from our current cp. We could still make this work with a relative path, but we'd have to specify The path is relative to the present working directory. Then the command would not have worked the same, as in this cd cp file1 directory1Ĭp: cannot stat 'file1': No such file or directoryĮven though file1 exists (in the home directory), it can't be found, because If we were some place else, where there wasn't a "file1", That means that it looks for them where we currently areĪt, which in this case was the home directory. When we type "file1" and "directory1", it is relative to our currentĭirectory. Relative paths are most commonly used, and it was what we used last week.įor instance, the following command copies "file1" into cp file1 directory1 There are two different ways that directories can be specified: with Last week we looked at the cp and mv commandsĪnd how they can be used to copy and move files around the fileīoth of these commands allow you to specify directories as the target.
Relative and Absolute Paths Wild Cards Seeing Disk Usage Symbolic Links Creating Archives Downloading Files Linux Filenames Accessing Files Remotely Transferring Files with scp Files and Directories Continued
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