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Creating new directories

It's time to learn how to create directories. This involves the use of the mkdir command. Try the following:

/home/larry#mkdir foo
/home/larry#ls -F
Mail/
foo/
letters/
papers/
/home/larry#cd foo
/home/larry/foo#ls
/home/larry/foo#

Congrats! You've just made a new directory and moved into it. Since there aren't any files in this new directory, let's learn how to copy files from one place to another.


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