Linux Fundamentals - Creating and Removing Directories and Files

This tutorial covers basic file and directory operations in a Linux environment. It explains how to create directories and subdirectories using the mkdir command, including the use of the -p option to create parent directories. The video also demonstrates how to remove directories and subdirectories with the rm command using the -r option. Additionally, it shows how to create files using the touch command and add content to files with the echo command. The tutorial concludes with a cleanup of the created directories and files.

Which command is used to create a new directory?

• cd

• rm

• ls

• mkdir

What option should be used with 'mkdir' to create parent directories if they do not exist?

• -r

• -p

• -d

• -f

Which command is used to remove a directory and its contents?

• delete

• rm -r

• rmdir

• rm

What does the '-r' option in the 'rm' command do?

• Renames files

• Removes files only

• Removes directories only

• Recursively removes directories and files

What command can be used to create an empty file?

• echo

• touch

• cat

• mkdir

How can you view the contents of a file?

• echo

• ls

• cat

• touch

Which command is used to write 'Hello World' into a file?

• echo 'Hello World' > file.txt

• touch file.txt

• ls > file.txt

• cat file.txt