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Creating Files

Creating files in Linux is about making new blank or filled files on your computer. You can use commands like touch to create an empty file, echo to make a file with some text inside, or cat to type directly into a new file. These commands help you set up and save your documents or data.

Here's an example of file creation with the touch command:

touch newfile.txt

and with cat command:

cat > newfile.txt

Both these commands create a new "newfile.txt" if it does not already exist.

Deleting Files

Deleting files in Linux means getting rid of unwanted or unnecessary files from your computer. You use the rm command to delete a file, and it’s permanent, so be careful. You can also use rm -i (interactive) to ask for confirmation before deleting, which helps prevent accidental loss of important files.

# Deletes the file named example.txt
rm example.txt

# Ask for confirmation
rm -i [filename]

# Removes an empty directory
rmdir [directory] 

Learn more from the following resources:

• @article@Linux rm Command: File Removing