Summary
Now that you have completed this chapter, you should have a firm understanding of the following:

The command line interface provides several more advanced file and directory manipulation commands to enable you to manage the file system.

Files and directories can be copied using the cp command and they can be moved and renamed using the mv command. When these commands are used with the -i or interactive option, the user is prompted before files are overwritten.

The workstation keyboard is the standard input device and the monitor or screen is the standard output device. UNIX Commands can receive input (stndin) and produce output (stndout and stnderr). It is common to redirect output from the screen to a file in order to capture the results of a command such as ls or cat for future viewing or manipulating. The right angle bracket is used to redirect command output.

Command piping takes the output of one command and uses it as input to the next command allowing you to create mini program or custom command. The pipe symbol (|) is used to separate commands to accomplish this.

File manger has several advanced capabilities for manipulating files and folders. These include moving (select + drag + drop) and copying (control + select + drag + drop). The Selected menu allows files and folders to be pre-selected after which they can be copied, moved, renamed or put in the Trash Can. File and directory permissions can also be changed using the properties option from the Selected menu.

The File Manager View menu can be used to customize the way File manager displays files and folders, which include displaying the file system as a tree.