A Quick Introduction to Unix/exercises3
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Task One[edit | edit source]
Task Two[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Create a directory called tempstuff using mkdir. Copy science.txt to tempstuff. Remove the directory tempstuff. What happens? Can you explain why?