What we learn now ?

In this tutorial we will interact with text editor, creates ,removes, copy , move and renaming files and directories.

Create a blank file

Let’s create blank file with touch command. we have already used this command.

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$ touch file1
$ ls
file1

Create and write in file.

Now we will use an interactive text editor. There are lots of text editor in termux

List of few text editor

• Vim
• Emacs
• micro
• nano

Let’s use micro editor because it’s more suitable for begginers.

Install it by pkg

pkg install micro -y

After installation let’s write something in file1 which we have created earlier.

Now open that file with micro like

micro file1

afterthat write something. Just write your name and save it by ctrl+s and exit with ctrl+q

Once you saved and exit. You can reopen that file in same way like you did before. micro file1

Create Directory

In order to create directory we use mkdir command.

let’s create a directory named termux,

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$ mkdir termux
$ ls
file1 termux

Copy files and directories.

We will use cp commamd to copy files and directories.

copy files

let’s create an empty directory first.

mkdir empty-dir

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$ mkdir empty-dir
$ ls
file1 empty-dir termux

you can see in line 3,

now lets copy file1 into empty-dir

cp file1 ./empty-dir

NOTE: ./ represents current directory, and you know empty-dir exist in current dir.

Now after executing above command let’s list empty-dir to see that file1 copied or not.

For list empty-dir, execute ls empty-dir

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$ ls empty-dir
file1

You can use cp to creating dublicate of file.

Here, creating dublicate of file1

cp file1 file2

The file2 will contains same things whatever file1 contains because file2 is dublicate of file1.Open both file for confirmation.

Copy directory

cp is use for copying directory also.

Here -r option come into play. -r stands for recursive.

synopsis : cp -r Dir DESTINATION_DIR_PATH

e.g. Copy empty-dir into termux

cp -r empty-dir ./termux

Above command will copy empty-dir into termux directory, both are exist in current directory.

In order to confirmation , list termux dir ls termux

Moving file.

Moving files means

Removing files and directories.

we use rm command to deleting files and directories.

removing files

In our current directories. There is one file and directories.

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$ ls
file1 termux

Just use rm FILENAME to delete it. Here you can use path also to deleting files, if thats not in current diretories.

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$ rm file1
$ ls 
termux

You can see after executing rm file1 , there’s no filename file1 in current directory.

Removing Directories.

We can use same rm command for removing directory also, but there for removing directory there is a similar command rmdir.

Lets remove directory with rmdir

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$ rmdir termux

Above command has removed termux. Here since termux directory is empty that’s why it has removed.

Removing non-empty directory.

Here we use rm with -r option.

-r stands for recursive.

So when directory is not empty we will use rm -r DIR_NAME

What’s next ?

We will cover about termux package manager in next tutorial.