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What are Paths on Linux Platform?

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel. This blog post includes the concept of paths in a Linux environment that one can use while writing the Bash script.

Path on Linux

A path is a unique location of a path or directory on Linux.

Linux has mainly two types of paths, the absolute path, and the relative path.

Present Working Directory(PWD) on Linux

Use the below command to find the present working directory.

~$ pwd
/home/nitendragautam

Files and Directory manipulations

Create a directory on Linux

mkdir <Directory Name>**

Create a directory recursively

mkdir -p <Directory1/Directory 2/Directory 3>

-p means progressively creating

mkdir -p /home/hduser/dir1   :Create multiple directory         

Deletes file in the current path

rm <file name>
:~$rm file1.txt

Forcefully removes everything (Files and directory) in the path

rm -rf <Directory_Path>
:~$rm -rf /home/hduser/dir1/dir2

Reference

Linux Tutorials

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