Creating and Deleting Files

Being able to create and delete a file is an everyday computing skill. However, when using the Linux Terminal, there’s an element of care required, chiefly because any deleted files aren’t placed in the system recycle bin.

CREATING FILES Once you learn to recognise the files and directories that make up Raspberry Pi OS OS, it’s time to discover how to make your own. Knowing how to make, edit and delete files and directories is essential if you want to make your own projects. STEP 1 We’re going to create a file using a command called Touch. Touch is an interesting command that reaches out to a file, or directory, and updates it (this changes the system time as if you’d just opened the file). You can see Touch in access using “ls –l” and checking the time next to a directory (such as Scratch). STEP 2 Now enter: touch Scratch and ls –l again and notice that the time has changed. It now matches the current time.…

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