Welcome to Kali Linux Command Lines – Part 2 : Working with Files.
Here, I’ll show you the commands for files to work in Kali Linux. This article is absolutely for BEGINNERS, but as we move on with upcoming parts, we’ll see much more complex and advanced commands to work in Kali.
Commands like : file, touch, rm, cp, mv/rename are for recognizing, creating, removing, copying and moving/renaming files. FILE 1 is different from file 1 (Case Sensitive)
– Command file:
The file command determines the file type. It recognizes the file.
e.g. When we have file named kali.png, to recognize this file as an image, we execute a command like:
file kali.png
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– Command touch:
One easy way to create an empty file is with touch. (We’ll see many other ways for creating files later in this tutorial series.)
e.g. If we want to create file with filename ‘cybrary’, then we execute a command like:
touch cybrary
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– Command rm:
When you no longer need a file, use rm to remove it. When you use rm to remove a file, the file is gone. Therefore, be careful when removing files!
To prevent ourselves from accidentally removing a file, we can type rm -i
Command rm -i
e.g. rm -i cybrary
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– Command cp:
To copy a file, use cp with a source and a target argument. For this, we execute command like:
cp 2.txt 3.txt (makes new 3.txt and holds the content of 2.txt)
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