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Access A Shell Prompt And Issue Commands With Correct Syntax

General Information

This objective centers around being able to correctly read man page syntax.


Reading Man Pages

man ls, Synopsis section

ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
  • ls - The command
  • [OPTION] - items in brackets are optional
  • … - previous item can be repeated (so, you can have multiple OPTIONs)
  • [FILE]… - optional target file/directory, can be multiple

man mv, Synopsis section

mv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
mv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
  • Three different ways to use the mv command
  • mv SOURCE DEST (1 source, any destination or rename a file)
  • mv SOURCE… DIRECTORY (move multiple source files, dest must be directory)
  • mv -t DIRECTORY SOURCE… (move all SOURCE argument(s) into the target (-t) directory)

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