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 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]
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