Working with the File System

Task 2: Creating a Folder Structure

I needed to recreate a specific folder structure on my Linux machine. The required structure was:

My Step-by-Step Process:

Step 1: First, I made sure I was in the correct home folder by checking my current location.

Since I needed to be in the home folder, I used:

Step 2: I created the top-level CompanyA folder:

Step 3: I moved into the CompanyA folder:

Step 4: I created all the required subdirectories at once:

Step 5: I verified the folders were created correctly:

This showed me:

Step 6: I moved into the HR directory to create files there:

Step 7: I created the empty files inside the HR folder:

Step 8: I verified the files were created:

This showed me:

Step 9: I changed my directory to Finance:

Step 10: I created the empty files inside the Finance folder:

Step 11: I verified the files were created:

This showed me:

Step 12: I went back to the CompanyA folder:

Step 13: I created the files in the Management folder without changing directories:

Step 14: I verified the files were created:

This showed me:

In the previous steps, I used the touch and ls command two ways:
Directly in the working folder: The ls command lists the current directory, and touch myFile.csv creates myFiles.csv in the current directory.
By using a path relative to the current folder: ls Management or touch Management/myFile.csv work in the Management folder inside the current folder.
cd ../ navigates back to the parent folder and touch ../Management/myFile.csv creates the myFile.csv file in the Management folder located in the parent folder of the current folder.

Step 15: I validated that all the files and folders were created correctly:

This showed the complete structure:

Task 3: Delete and reorganize folders

A few weeks later, I was tasked with reorganizing the content as follows:

• Copy the Finance folder and its content to the HR folder, and remove the previous Finance folder
• Move the Management folder inside the HR folder
• Create an Employees folder inside the HR folder, and move the Assessments.csv and TrialPeriod.csv file inside the Employees folder

My Step-by-Step Process:

Step 1: I made sure I was in the correct directory:

This confirmed I was in the right location:

Step 2: I copied the Finance folder and its content to the HR folder:

Step 3: I verified that the folder and content were copied correctly:

This showed me:

Step 4: I attempted to remove the Finance folder:

But got this error:

rmdir works only on an empty directory.

To remove the folder, I had two options:

• Remove the files inside the folder and then remove the Finance folder.
• Use the rm command with the -r option to recursively delete the folder and its content.

Step 5: I chose to remove the files first:

Step 6: I verified that the folder was empty:

This showed an empty result, confirming the folder was empty.

Step 7: I removed the now-empty Finance folder:

Step 8: I verified that the folder was removed:

This showed me:

Step 9: I moved the Management folder inside the HR folder:

Step 10: I verified that the folder and files were moved correctly:

This showed me:

Step 11: I navigated into the HR folder:

Step 12: I created the Employees folder:

Step 13: I moved the files to the Employees folder:

Step 14: I verified that the files were moved correctly:

This showed me: