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  • Unix For Testers

       Introduction to Unix
       Unix System Architecture
       Unix File System Structure
       Absolute and Relative Path
       Basic Unix Commands
       cal command in Unix
       who command in Unix
       date command in Unix
       clear command in Unix
       more command in Unix
       whoami command in Unix
       uname command in Unix
       man command in Unix
       echo command in Unix
       Unix File System Commands
       ls command in Unix
       cat command in Unix
       cp command in Unix
       mv command in Unix
       pwd command in Unix
       cd command in Unix
       mkdir command in Unix
       rmdir command in Unix
       rm command in Unix
       touch command in Unix
       dirname command in Unix
       tar command in Unix
       Unix Links(ln)
       Hard Link
       Soft Link
       Regular Expressions
        Basic Regular Expressions
       Interval Regular Expressions
       Pipes and Filters
       Unix Text Processing Commands
       cmp command in Unix
       diff command in Unix
       comm command in Unix
       cut command in Unix
       Paste command in Unix
       head command in Unix
       tail command in Unix
       wc command in Unix
       sort command in Unix
       grep command in Unix
       Process Related Command
       top command in Unix
       ps command in Unix
       nice command in Unix
       Kill command in Unix
       nohup command in Unix
       time command in Unix
       File Tranfer Commands in Unix
       file transfer using scp command
       file transfer using rlogin command
       file transfer using telnet command
       ssh(Secure Shell) command in Unix
       ftp file transfer command
       sftp file transfer command
       chmod command in Unix
       File Permission and File Security in Unix



  • File System Commands in Unix

    This article aims to familiarize with the basic file system commands in Unix that helps to work with files and directories

    touch command in Unix

    The touch command is used to update the timestamps on existing files and directories as well as creating new, empty files.

          • Updates the access and modification times.
          • It is used to create a file without any content.
          • This command can be used when the user doesn’t have data to store at the time of file creation.
    Syntax:
     touch [-amc] [mmddhhmm[yy]] files

     touch filename: When touch command is used without any options, if the file name specified as an argument doesn’t exist touch will create a new file.

    touch -a file1: This command is used to change access time of file1.

    touch file1 file2 file3 :Multiple files with name file1, file2 ,file3 are created at the same time

    Examples of the cat command in Unix are:

      1. create or modify timestamp of file using touch command
    touch file1

    2. To create or modify multiple files at once, specify the file names as arguments

    touch file1 file2 file3

    dirname command in Unix

          • Strips non-directory suffix from filename
    Syntax:
    dirname NAME

    dirname OPTION

    for more details on dirname refer here

    tar command in Unix

    The tar command creates tar files by converting collection of files into an archive. It also can extract tar archives and display list of the files included in the archive.

          • Archiving files
          • File require archiving in order to compress data
          • Reduce the storage space.
    Syntax:
    tar [OPERATION_AND_OPTIONS] [ARCHIVE_NAME] [FILE_NAME(s)]

    OPERATION: Only one operation argument is allowed and required. The most frequently used operations are: create (-c) – Create a new tar archive. extract (-x) – Extract the entire archive or one or more files from an archive. list (-t) – Displays list of the files included in the archive

    ARCHIVE_NAME: The name of the archive.

    FILE_NAME(s): A space-separated list of filenames to be extracted from the archive. If file name is not provided, the entire archive is extracted.

    Option

    Use

    -c

    create

    -t

    List all files

    -x

    Extract all

    -v

    verbose

    -z

    Create a Zip file

    -r

    Append

    -cvf

    Create archive from files

    -tvf

    List all files in archive.tar

    -xf

    Extract all files in archive.tar

    -cvzf

    Create a compressed gzip archive file

    -rvf

    Append a file to the existing archive

    Example: 

          1. command creates a tar file called file.tar which is the Archive of all .dat files in the current directory.
    $ tar -cvf file.tar *.c
    Unix: create archive file using tar command in unix

           2. Extracting files from Archive using option -xvf : This command extracts files from Archives.

    $ tar -xvf file.tar

           3. List all the archive files without extracting

    $ tar -tvf file.tar 

          4. List the content of the gzipped archive, without extracting 

    $ tar -tvzf file.tar 

          5. Update existing tar file in Linux

    $ tar rvf file.tar *.c
    
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  • Unix For Testers

       Introduction to Unix
       Unix System Architecture
       Unix File System Structure
       Absolute and Relative Path
       Basic Unix Commands
       cal command in Unix
       who command in Unix
       date command in Unix
       clear command in Unix
       more command in Unix
       whoami command in Unix
       uname command in Unix
       man command in Unix
       echo command in Unix
       Unix File System Commands
       ls command in Unix
       cat command in Unix
       cp command in Unix
       mv command in Unix
       pwd command in Unix
       cd command in Unix
       mkdir command in Unix
       rmdir command in Unix
       rm command in Unix
       touch command in Unix
       dirname command in Unix
       tar command in Unix
       Unix Links(ln)
       Hard Link
       Soft Link
       Regular Expressions
        Basic Regular Expressions
       Interval Regular Expressions
       Pipes and Filters
       Unix Text Processing Commands
       cmp command in Unix
       diff command in Unix
       comm command in Unix
       cut command in Unix
       Paste command in Unix
       head command in Unix
       tail command in Unix
       wc command in Unix
       sort command in Unix
       grep command in Unix
       Process Related Command
       top command in Unix
       ps command in Unix
       nice command in Unix
       Kill command in Unix
       nohup command in Unix
       time command in Unix
       File Tranfer Commands in Unix
       file transfer using scp command
       file transfer using rlogin command
       file transfer using telnet command
       ssh(Secure Shell) command in Unix
       ftp file transfer command
       sftp file transfer command
       chmod command in Unix
       File Permission and File Security in Unix













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