Common commands
pwd— prints the current working directory.cd— changes the current directory. We use..to get to the parent level, and a specific folder name to get to a child level. For directories with spaces, we can wrap the address path in quotation marks to ensure it changes properly.mkdir <DIR_NAME>— to create a new sub-directory in the current working directory.- chmod — which changes the access permissions of a given file/directory.
cp— copies files. See flags below.-a /src/. /dest/— recursively copies all contents of thesrcfolder to thedestfolder.
Absolute paths are the full paths starting from the root directory. Relative paths are relative to the current working directory.
To mount a drive:
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/drv3