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1. Plain file manipulation
     a) mv             b) cp              c) rm

2. Directory manipulation
    a) pwd           b) mkdir           c) cd       d) rmdir

3. Account management
    a) ln (redirecting file access)      b) passwd (changing your password)
    c) zip/unzip                             d) du (disk usage)

1.  Plain file manipulation

a) mv 

• my rajesh anand

This moves rajesh to a file named anand. This is the Unix way of renaming a file. 

• mv rajesh mukesh/rajesh

This moves rajesh to a file named rajesh in the subdirectory mukesh. 

This example could have been written 
• mv rajesh mukesh/

as well, and the filename rajesh would have been retained in the new directory. After executing this command, there will no longer be a rajesh file in the current directory.

b) cp 

• cp rajesh anand

This copies rajesh to a file named anand. 

• cp rajesh mukesh/anand 

This copies rajesh to a file named anand in the subdirectory mukesh.

c) rm

• rm rajesh
This removes a file named rajesh.
• rm -rf anand
This removes a directory named anand. The -r removes the directory, the -f forces it to remove files without asking you before it deletes each one.
 

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2. Directory manipulation

In order to keep track of the possibly millions of files on-line, Unix systems have a directory tree, which enables meaningful classification of files. For example, the most essential system programs are kept in /bin/, user home directories are all under /home/, and everything having to do with the WWW is under /www/ or /httpdocs/. More specifically, your home directory is /home/you/ and the directory for your WWW files is /www/htdocs/you/.

a) pwd
• pwd 
This prints out your working directory: where you are. When you give a filename to a command without specifying some other directory, the filename is looked up, manipulated, or created in your current working directory.

b) mkdir
• mkdir anand
This makes a subdirectory of the current directory named anand.

c) cd
• cd anand
This changes the directory to the subdirectory named anand.
• cd /home/anand
This changes the directory to the home directory of the anand.
• cd /www/htdocs/anand
This changes the directory to the WWW directory of the anand.
• cd
With no arguments, cd returns you to your home directory.

d) rmdir
• rmdir anand

 This removes the subdirectory anand. The directory must be empty for this to work.

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3. Account management

1) ln (redirecting file access)
Type ln -s home.html index.html to redirect all file accesses from index.html to the file home.html.

2) passwd (changing your password)
Type passwd to change your password.

3) zip/unzip

Type zip to zip files and unzip to unzip files. This program is compatible with the zip program for DOS. For example:
zip myzip file1 file2 file3
This puts the files file1, file2, and file3 into a new zip archive called myzip.zip. On the other hand, if you had the archive myzip.zip and wanted to get back the files:
unzip myzip
Typing zip or unzip by itself will give you a usage summary, showing nearly all the options available.

4) du (disk usage)
The Unix command
du -s directory
shows how much disk space is used by a directory and everything below it. While we work on creating the complicated command needed to automatically check all the directories you are associated with, you can find out how much space is in use by the WWW files for a domain with
du -s /www/htdocs/domain

If you don't have anything much in your home directory or mail spool, this comes close to the total space you have in use. (You would know if you did have other things in your home directory, and could use du -s $HOME to check on that.)
If you have an anonymous FTP area, also check
du -s ~ftp/my.domain

For example, snoopy.com might need to run some number of the following:

du -s /www/htdocs/snoopy
du -s ~ftp/snoopy.com
du -s $HOME

and add the results to find out how much space he's using.
You might find it useful to use the -c command and group the paths
Example:

brown:~$ du -sc /www/htdocs/pir ~ftp/pir.com $HOME
5489 /www/htdocs/pir
4 /www/ftp/pir.com
13 /home/rmiller
5510 total
Actual results.
brown:~$ du -sc /www/htdocs/pir ~ftp/pir.com $HOME
5489 /www/htdocs/pir
du: /www/ftp/pir.com/bin: Permission denied
du: /www/ftp/pir.com/dev: Permission denied
du: /www/ftp/pir.com/etc: Permission denied
du: /www/ftp/pir.com/lib: Permission denied
4 /www/ftp/pir.com
13 /home/rmiller
5510 total

The numbers reported are kilobytes. A senior or RealAudio account gets to use about 51,000 blocks before having additional charges. A junior or telnet- only account gets about 5,100.

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