OK, here is a small 'how to' for knowing how to do a few basic things in UNIX (specifically the terminal in OS X). Now when you open you your terminal you probably see something like: Welcome to Darwin! [hostname:~] your_username% ->for the purposes of this HOW to we will use this: Welcome to Darwin! [admiralty:~] admiral%. [admiralty:~] admiral% ls -l total 0 drwx------ 4 admiral staff 264 Oct 4 19:29 Desktop drwx------ 5 admiral staff 264 Oct 4 19:29 Documents drwx------ 22 admiral staff 704 Oct 7 15:10 Library drwx------ 2 admiral staff 264 Oct 4 19:30 Movies drwx------ 2 admiral staff 264 Oct 4 19:30 Music drwx------ 2 admiral staff 264 Oct 4 19:30 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 3 admiral staff 264 Aug 21 13:34 Public drwxr-xr-x 4 admiral staff 264 Aug 21 13:34 Sites drwxr-xr-x 9 admiral staff 264 Oct 4 19:47 admiralty [admiralty:~] admiral%Now you might be wondering what drwxrwxrwx is and all that stuff that is above. ->continues bellow. The first column of the above tells you what the 'permissions' are.

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D = directory r = read w = write x = execute now this is how to read drwxrwxrwx file type owner (you) permissions group perms other perms d rwx rwx rwx Lets say I am another guy (I fall under others) and I have r-x this means that I only have read and execute permiossions. If I have --- means that I have no permissions.

So whenever someone doesnt have a permiossion to do something the '-' appears where that permission would exist. The 3rd column: Indicates the user who created that document The 4th column: Indicates that user's group The 6th, 7th and 8th columns indicate the date and time that file was last modified and the 9th column indicates the file name OK! Information overload, right? Well, this was a brief explantation, we'll take it easy from now on, I promise ---- Now the last LS flag for this HOW-TO, the -F flag. [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral% ls job text.txt [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral% rm text.txt [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral% ls job [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral%Explantation: I did an LS to see what I had in my folder. I had the folder named 'job' and a text file called 'text.txt'. I did the rm command followed by the file name I wanted to delete.

I hit return. The I did another LS to verify that I deleted it. ----- To remove a directory you use the rm command with the flag -r (r stands for recursive but we wont get into that now) here is what we have then. [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral% mkdir jow [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral% ls jow [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral% mv jow joe [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral% ls joe [admiralty:~/pictures] admiral%Explanation: I made a directory called 'jow'. Of course I made a typo! To correct this is a simple matter with the MV command. I just do mv jow (the file I made) joe (the new name I want to give it).

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To make sure I did what I wanted it to do, I did an LS command, and I see that it worked! --- How do you copy something? Use the command called cp (for CoPy). The syntax of this command is similar to the MV command cp source destination where source is the source file, and destination is the destination file.

Free data recovery for mac. Lets say I want to duplicate my 'AK' text file so that I have 'AK' and 'AK1'. Nice work - now what if i would like to copy all the files in a directory to another directory - say the contents of /users/freestlyer/documents to /users/freestlyer/archive/documents both paths exist. Now, say that the contents of the archive/documents folder are a mix of.doc file and.xls files - and ive just made two sub directories within /archive/documents being /users/freestlyer/archive/documents/xls /users/freestlyer/archive/documents/doc -In Dos I might put my pointer at /user/freestlyer and go: move c: users freestlyer documents *.* /users/freestlyer/archive/documents/*.* or selectively sort from there with c: users freestlyer documents *.doc got any tips?

Cheers Free Styler. I realize this is an old thread, but I'll post something since I've seen the question of how to move directories and/or multiple files a couple of times. To copy an entire directory tree, you can use the -R switch. For example:% cp -R documents/ new_location/ OR% cp -Rp documents/ new_location/ The first one will copy the directory and all sub-directories. The second one will attempt to preserve as many file attributes as it can (ownership, permissions, etc.) To copy a number of files, you can use wildcards (similar to DOS, not the same).% cp documents/*.doc new_location/ I didn't put the -R this time, since I'm assuming that *.doc will only match files.