Directory commands

Common Directory Commands

To Change the working Directory.

cd /etl/IS/Path

It is used to move the control from current directory to the specified directory.

Other commands related to cd:

cd .. Go to Parent Directory

cd . Go to Current Directory

pwd Prints the path of current working directory

To create a directory using mkdir

mkdir -p dir1/dir2/dir3

This command is used to create a directory or a hierarchical directory.

To remove a directory using  rmdir(if its empty):

rmdir /home/ankit/aaa

To remove a directory if its not empty:

rm -rf /home/ankit/aaa

It delete all files and folders contains in aaa directory

To  move a directory using  MVDIR:

mvdir /home/ankit/aaa /desk/ankit/aaa

mvdir moves one directory tree into another existing directory or renames a directory without moving it

To list the files and folders in a particular directory using ls

ls path

ls /etl/IS/folder/temp

ls command lists all the files, folders inside the directory.  Other commands are as below

Command	Purpose
ls -l	long format, displaying Unix file types, permissions, number of hard links, owner, group, size, last-modified date and filename
ls -f	Do not sort. Useful for directories containing large numbers of files.
ls -F	Appends a character revealing the nature of a file, for example, * for an executable, or / for a directory. Regular files have no suffix.
ls -a	Lists all files in the given directory, including those whose names start with "." (which are hidden files in Unix).
ls -R	Recursively lists subdirectories. The command ls -R / would therefore list all files.
ls -d	Shows information about a symbolic link or directory, rather than about the link's target or listing the contents of a directory.
ls -t	Sort the list of files by modification time.
ls -h	Print sizes in human readable format. (e.g., 1K, 234M, 2G, etc.)
ls -d */	Lists the directories in a path