module 1, day 3: windows make directories in gui and cli) through windows moving a renaming files, directories

Question 1

How to make a new directory (folder) in the GUI Windows?

Answer 1

right click, new, folder

Question 2

making a folder in the CLI Windows?

Answer 2

mkdir (name)

Question 3

making a folder that you want to have spaces instead of underscores with the cli, but just adding spaces between the letters rather than specifying that you are not adding a parameter, will lead to what error? PowerShell

Answer 3

“a positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument” The system will read the words as parameters.

Question 4

How do you specify that a folder name with spaces is one single thing? PowerShell

Answer 4

Surround the name with quotes,
mkdir ‘my cool folder’
Use back ticks, escaping characters,
mkdir my cool folder`, with the backticks telling the shell the space after the back tick is part of our filename.

Question 5

what do escape characters mean?

Answer 5

the next character after the back tick, or other relevant escape character, should be treated literally

Question 6

what command is used to make a new directory in Bash?

Answer 6

mkdir

Question 7

how do you escape characters in Bash?

Answer 7

\

Question 8

how can you encompass a file name you want to put spaces in in Bash?

Answer 8

quotes around the file name

Question 9

what happens when you enter a command in PowerShell?

Answer 9

it gets saved in memory and added to a file.

Question 10

Where are past recently used commands in PowerShell stored?

Answer 10

history

Question 11

What does the simple use of history do in PowerShell?

Answer 11

displays a list of commands you entered earlier

Question 12

How do you scroll through commands you see with history? PowerShell

Answer 12

up or down keys on the keyboard

Question 13

what does using up and down keys on the PowerShell do?

Answer 13

rotates through the last commands used, which makes it easier to repeat commands and make small modifications to them.

Question 14

What is ctrl-r in PowerShell?

Answer 14

the history shortcut. it’ll bring you down to another line, and then you can search for commands in history and it will show you matches. typing enter will input the command.

Question 15

what is an alternate command to ctrl r in powershell’s older versions/

Answer 15

hash, followed by some part of your previous command, and then use tab completion to cycle through items in history.

Question 16

How do you use the clear command in PowerShell?

Answer 16

to clear the output on your screen, input into the command line.

Question 17

what is the history command in linux?

Answer 17

history

Question 18

What can I use on the command line to cycle through previous commands in linux?

Answer 18

up and down arrow keys

Question 19

what searches history in linux, alternative to history command?

Answer 19

ctrl r

Question 20

what is the linux clear command?

Answer 20

clear

Question 21

How to copy files and directories in Windows Gui?

Answer 21

right click the folder, copy, paste.

Question 22

hotkeys to copy a folder in windows gui

Answer 22

ctrl-c and ctrl-v

Question 23

define hotkey

Answer 23

a keyboard shortcut that does some kind of task

Question 24

Powershell command for copy.

Answer 24

cp. Also need to add the file you need to copy and the path you want to copy it to.

Question 25

What can help you copy multiple files at once? powrshell

Answer 25

wildcard

Question 26

What is a character used to help select files based on a certain pattern?

Answer 26

Wildcard

Question 27

how to get all jpegs and copy somewhere

Answer 27

go into the right directory, cp *.jpg, and then the path you want to copy the files to.

Question 28

how to use the wildcard? What symbol? means all in powershell, for selecting directories.

Answer 28

*

Question 29

what are you telling PowerShell when you put
cp *.jpg?

Answer 29

to copy all .jpg files

Question 30

how to copy a folder to Desktop? Doesn’t copy the contents of the folder, just the folder.

Answer 30

go to the right directory,
cp ‘name of directory’ and list the file path you want it sent in.
ex:
cp ‘bird pictures’ ~\Desktop

Question 31

what command parameter do you need to use to copy the contents of a directory as well as the directory itself?

Answer 31

-Recurse

Question 32

What command parameter lists the contents of the directory?

Answer 32

Recurse

Question 33

what is another word for recurse?

Answer 33

repeat

Question 34

What happens if you recurse a directory?

Answer 34

it’ll list the contents, and if there are any subdirectories in the listing, it’ll recurse, repeating the directory listing process for each of those subdirectories.

Question 35

What do you use with copy to copy the contents of a directory?

Answer 35

-Recurse parameter, with cp

Question 36

What parameter, with cp in powershell, makes it so that copy doesn’t output anything to the CLI by default unless there are errors?

Answer 36

-Verbose

Question 37

What happens in powershell when you use copy -Verbose?

Answer 37

it’ll output one line for each file of the directory being copied.

Question 38

how to copy the file ‘bird pictures’ and its contents? to the desktop using PowerShell

Answer 38

cp ‘bird pictures’ ~\Desktop -Recurse -Verbose

Question 39

how do you copy files in bash?

Answer 39

cp filename ~path

Question 40

how to copy multiple files of the same type? Bash .png files, for example, to the desktop

Answer 40

cp *.png ~/Desktop

Question 41

how to recursively copy a directory in Bash?

Answer 41

-r is the flag

Question 42

how to copy cat pictures folder to a desktop

Answer 42

cp -r ‘cat pictures’ ~/Desktop

Question 43

how to rename file in gui windows?

Answer 43

double click, rename

Question 44

how to rename file PowrShell

Answer 44

mv command

Question 45

what does mv stand for?

Answer 45

move item

Question 46

how to move a file Windows PowrShell, without changing directory it is in
change blue_document.txt to yellow_document.txt

Answer 46

mv blue_document.txt yellow_document.txt
when you type it in, with tab completion, it’ll automatically add the .\ at the front, to signify that you are working in the current directory.
this is optional.
bare minimum:
mv blue_document.txt yellow_document.txt

Question 47

what command lets us move files from one directory to another PowerShell?

Answer 47

mv

Question 48

how to mv a document? move yellow_document.txt, which is currently in the directory we are in, from Desktop to the Documents directory

Answer 48

mv .\yellow_document.txt ~\Documents

Question 49

you can move multiple files using what?

Answer 49

wildcards

Question 50

how do you move multiple files using wildcards with the mv command? move all document.txt files.

Answer 50

mv *_document.txt ~\Documents

Question 51

with the cp command, where do you put the -r flag if you are copying a file?

Answer 51

it goes after cp. It’s the second thing. Then you get the ‘directoryname’ and then you get ‘location name’