PCLinuxOS Terminal Tutorial for Beginners

Making Directories

4. 4. Making Folders

   Again experiment yours Creative powers
   Making a test Directory like:

   mkdir $HOME/livingroom

   [See here again how “mkdir” is an Abbreviation for “Making Directory“].

   How you should have already understood, $HOME and ‘~‘ are both synonymous of your’s Home Folder.
   And the Home Directory is where your User Contents are Stored by Default.

   Moreover, to enhance your Memorization and Fun I rightly Use some Metaphoric term. So here you can Immagine a directory like a Room into your Home :)

   Try Making Multiple Directories at once with:

   mkdir $HOME/bedroom $HOME/bathroom $HOME/garden

   Try to use the “ls” Command to Check your creative Work:)

   ls ~

   Finally, use the ‘touch‘ Command to Make a New Empty File:

   touch $HOME/livingroom/box

   And how you could already have perceived, in my creative Examples I make use of the following Mnemonic Linking:

   • Directory -> Spatial Entity

   • File -> Thing

   And so in the Previous Command to an “Empty File” corresponds a natively “Empty Thing” like a “box”, or otherwise you may take it as a simple Label/Name ;)