35 Working with Files

In this chapter you will learn how to inspect contents of files, and how to perform typical file operations:

Inspection:

• wc
• head
• tail
• cat
• less
• file

Typical file operations:

• create a directory, e.g. mkdir lab05
• create an empty file, e.g. touch README.md
• rename a file, e.g. mv report.Rmd document.Rmd
• move a file to another directory, e.g. mv myscript.R lab05/
• copy a file, e.g. cp data1.csv data2.csv
• remove a file, e.g. rm datafile.csv