How to create directories and files in the terminal on Linux Ubuntu

[GamerGry123]

 

How to make files into a folder like this photo? There is a home directory on linux, right? And there are other directories in the home directory. Desktop, Pictures, Documents ... yes?

How to make a folder in the home directory with the terminal?

[whispous]

Are you asking on how to create a folder or how to display the folders like in the picture?

[Dutch_Master]

Bookmark this page:

https://ss64.com/bash/

 

You need the mkdir command to create directories.

[Master Disaster]

mkdir ~/foldername

 

mkdir = make directory

~ = the currently signed in users home directory (except for root who has a special folder)

foldername = whatever you want the folder to be

 

If you want to do it for other users then you need either SUDO or to be root then its

 

mkdir /home/username/foldername

 

or if you do have root its easier to just su to the user you want to edit and use the ~ alias.

[GamerGry123]

6 hours ago, whispous said:

Pytasz jak stworzyć folder lub jak wyświetlić foldery jak na obrazku?

How to create a folder I know you need to write mkdir and the name of the folder. But I don't know how to create something like the picture

[GamerGry123]

6 hours ago, Dutch_Master said:

Dodaj stronę do ulubionych:

https://ss64.com/bash/

 

Do tworzenia katalogów potrzebne jest polecenie mkdir.

Thanks for the command page. Are all the linux commands there?

[GamerGry123]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

mkdir ~/nazwa folderu

 

mkdir = utwórz katalog

~ = katalog domowy aktualnie zalogowanych użytkowników (z wyjątkiem roota, który ma specjalny folder)

nazwa folderu = dowolny folder, który ma być

 

Jeśli chcesz to zrobić dla innych użytkowników, potrzebujesz SUDO lub być rootem, wtedy jest

 

mkdir /home/nazwa użytkownika/nazwa folderu

 

lub jeśli masz root, łatwiej jest po prostu podpisać użytkownika, którego chcesz edytować i użyć aliasu ~.

To create something like the picture you need to have a root?

[Master Disaster]

5 minutes ago, GamerGry123 said:

How to create a folder I know you need to write mkdir and the name of the folder. But I don't know how to create something like the picture

You cannot just create a picture out of nothing. If you mean create an empty file then the command you want is touch.

 

For example...

 

touch ~/Documents/picture.jpeg

 

...would create an empty file in your Documents folder called picture.jpeg.

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, GamerGry123 said:

To create something like the picture you need to have a root?

In someone else's home directory yes, in your own home directory no.

[GamerGry123]

5 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Nie można po prostu stworzyć obrazu z niczego. Jeśli masz na myśli utworzenie pustego pliku, to poleceniem, które chcesz, jest dotyk.

 

Na przykład...

 

dotknij ~/Dokumenty/obraz.jpeg

 

...utworzy pusty plik w folderze Dokumenty o nazwie picture.jpeg.

Okay, and you don't need root for that? I know that this is how the file is created.

[GamerGry123]

5 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

W cudzym katalogu domowym tak, we własnym katalogu domowym nie.

My point is that you have a home directory in the file explorer, in it directories desktop, documents, images and others, in it I want to create a directory using commands

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, GamerGry123 said:

Okay, and you don't need root for that? I know that this is how the file is created.

If you're creating something in your own home folder no you don't need root.

[GamerGry123]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Jeśli tworzysz coś we własnym katalogu domowym, nie potrzebujesz roota.

Okay, but with the terminal I don't know how to do it, you can do it by clicking the mouse but I don't know how to write the command

[GamerGry123]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Jeśli tworzysz coś we własnym katalogu domowym, nie potrzebujesz roota.

Why, as I write in the tree command as in the picture, it does not show standard directories such as document, images?

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, GamerGry123 said:

My point is that you have a home directory in the file explorer, in it directories desktop, documents, images and others, in it I want to create a directory using commands

Oh I think I understand now, you need to install the tree package, if you're on Ubuntu its

 

sudo apt install tree

 

then you just use tree instead of ls

[GamerGry123]

4 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Och, myślę, że teraz rozumiem, musisz zainstalować pakiet drzewa, jeśli jesteś na Ubuntu to

 

drzewo instalacji sudo apt

 

wtedy po prostu używasz drzewa zamiast ls

Well, now everything works, but I knew how to do it all folders files but because I didn't know how to show them I thought they were not in the home directory. Thanks

[GamerGry123]

5 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Och, myślę, że teraz rozumiem, musisz zainstalować pakiet drzewa, jeśli jesteś na Ubuntu to

 

drzewo instalacji sudo apt

 

wtedy po prostu używasz drzewa zamiast ls

How to delete a selected file or folder with a command?

[Master Disaster]

Delete a file with...

 

rm filename (if its in the current directory)

or

rm /file/path/here (to specify an absolute path)

 

Delete a folder with...

 

rm -R /folder/path/here

*note the R must be a capital otherwise it won't work.

 

Deleting a folder will also delete any files it contains.

 

[SansVarnic]

-= Topic moved to Linux, macOS and Everything Not-Windows =-

[10leej]

These commands are portable to any linux system

[heimdali]

man ls

 

Hit the / key, type recursive and press enter.  Hit q when done.  That's assuming you are using English as default language.

 

[10leej]

15 hours ago, heimdali said:

man ls

 

Hit the / key, type recursive and press enter.  Hit q when done.  That's assuming you are using English as default language.

 

that view is done with tree, not ls

[heimdali]

@10leej

 

Right, yet ls may also be helpful.  Tree can be somewhat unwieldly and take quite a while for displaying directories, especially when you're trying to learn how create a directory structure or when you have more than a few files in one.

 

Last time I used tree must have been in the 90ies when it was cool to have a program that could produce fancy output like that, and I had forgotten about it   Aside from the coolness I never found it very useful.

 

Hm, it's still cool, though, and has lots of options.  Maybe I should use it more often.  Interestingly, it's installed by default on Fedora Workstation.