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Removing directories quickly - Exercise
   
Listing, copying, and removing directories
Objective:Use ls, cp, and rm to manage files and directories.
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You will receive 2 points for this exercise.
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Background/overview
In this exercise, ls, cp, and rm
will be used to practice the concepts you learned in the previous three lessons.
Instructions
  1. Log in to your course account.
  2. Type the script command to begin saving your UNIX session to a file named ex200-1: % script ex200-1
  3. In your home directory, list your files, including hidden files.
  4. Display a recursive listing of the images directory tree.
  5. Copy the images directory to the project directory.
  6. Change to the project directory using the cd command.
  7. List the project directory. Then list the images subdirectory recursively.
  8. Remove the images directory you just copied by using the rm command instead of rmdir.
  9. Type exit to end the script command.
  10. Log out when you are done.
Hints If you enter the logout command, but it responds "Not login shell," it means you forgot to end the script command.
Type exit and then logout.