Working With Files and Directories

Question 1

Naming Files

Answer 1

Up to 255 charcters
Avoid symbols
Use letters, numbers, hyphens, period, underscore
Unix typically case sensitive
underscore better than spaces (alternatives use quotes, escape spaces)
use file endings

Question 2

Create files

Answer 2

touch filename.

Also updates access time

Question 3

What text editors are available?

Answer 3

nano
vim
GNU Emacs