Navigating your files

Goal: Use a terminal with basic commands.

Intro

Terminal is hard. It is not for everyone. We learned that using a terminal is harder when you have a visual impairment. Still, their are some situations where you cannot avoid it.

This exercise is mainly for getting more familiar with the new nature of using a terminal.

The mission

You are only allow to use the terminal. No gui.

  1. Create a folder named folder-a

  2. Create a file in folder-a called file-a.txt that contains the sentence: I am a file. Nice to meat you!. Tip, you do not have to use an editor in the terminal such as vim or nano. You can use the echo command

  3. Copy file-a.txt and name it file-b.txt. Make sure that file-b.txt is in folder-a. Use the cp command.

  4. Copy folder-a with all the files and name it folder-b. Use the cp command.

Tip, you can read man-pages online with your screen reader instead of in the terminal.

Good luck.